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Ibram Lassaw (1913-2003) is an American
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 sculptor
Sculpture

Sculpture is Three-dimensional space artwork created by shaping or combining hard and or plastic material, sound, and or text and or light, commonly Stone sculpture , metal, glass, or wood....
, known for nonobjective construction in brazed metals.

Biography
Lassaw was born in Alexandria, Egypt, of Russian émigré parents, he went to the U.S. in 1921. His family settled in Brooklyn, New York. He became a US citizen in 1928. He first studied sculpture in 1926 at the Clay Club and later at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design
Beaux-Arts Institute of Design

The Beaux-Arts Institute of Design was an art and architectural school at 304 East 44th Street in the Turtle Bay, Manhattan area of Manhattan, New York City, New York, founded in 1916 with the goal of training American architects, sculptors and mural painters consistent with the educational agenda of the French Ecole des Beaux-Arts....
 in New York. He made abstract paintings and drawings influenced by Kandinsky, Sophie Taeuber-Arp
Sophie Taeuber-Arp

Sophie Taeuber-Arp was a Swiss artist, Painting and sculpture....
, and other artists.






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Ibram Lassaw (1913-2003) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 sculptor
Sculpture

Sculpture is Three-dimensional space artwork created by shaping or combining hard and or plastic material, sound, and or text and or light, commonly Stone sculpture , metal, glass, or wood....
, known for nonobjective construction in brazed metals.

Biography


Lassaw was born in Alexandria, Egypt, of Russian émigré parents, he went to the U.S. in 1921. His family settled in Brooklyn, New York. He became a US citizen in 1928. He first studied sculpture in 1926 at the Clay Club and later at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design
Beaux-Arts Institute of Design

The Beaux-Arts Institute of Design was an art and architectural school at 304 East 44th Street in the Turtle Bay, Manhattan area of Manhattan, New York City, New York, founded in 1916 with the goal of training American architects, sculptors and mural painters consistent with the educational agenda of the French Ecole des Beaux-Arts....
 in New York. He made abstract paintings and drawings influenced by Kandinsky, Sophie Taeuber-Arp
Sophie Taeuber-Arp

Sophie Taeuber-Arp was a Swiss artist, Painting and sculpture....
, and other artists. He also attended the City College of New York
City College of New York

The City College of The City University of New York is a senior college of the City University of New York, in New York City. It is also the oldest of the City University's twenty-three institutions of higher learning....
. Influenced by Alexander Calder
Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder , also known as Sandy Calder, was an United States Sculpture and artist most famous for inventing the mobile . In addition to mobile and stabile sculpture, Alexander Calder also created paintings, lithography, toys, tapestry and jewelry, and designed carpets....
's work Lassaw began to make sculpture in the 1930s.

During the mid 1930s, Lassaw worked briefly for the Public Works of Art Project
Public Works of Art Project

The Public Works of Art Project was a program to employ artists, as part of the New Deal, during the Great Depression. It was the first such program, running from December 1933 to June 1934....
 cleaning sculptural monuments around New York City. He subsequently joined the WPA
WPA

WPA is a three-letter acronym with multiple meanings:...
 as a teacher and sculptor until he was drafted into the army in 1942. Lassaw's contribution to the advancement of sculptural abstraction went beyond mere formal innovation; his promotion of modernist styles during the 1930s did much to insure the growth of abstract art
Abstract art

Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world....
 in the United States. He was one of the founding members of the American Abstract Artists
American Abstract Artists

American Abstract Artists was formed in 1936 in New York City, to promote and foster public understanding of abstract art. American Abstract Artists exhibitions, publications, and lectures helped to establish the organization as a major forum for the exchange and discussion of ideas, and for presenting abstract art to a broader public....
 group.

Lassaw is a sculptor closely associated with the New York School
New York School

The New York School was an informal group of American poets, Paintings, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s, 1960s in New York City. The poets, painters, composers, dancers, and musicians often drew inspiration from Surrealism and the contemporary avant-garde art movements, in particular action painting, abstract expressionism, Jazz...
 of Abstract expressionism
Abstract expressionism

Abstract expressionism was an American post?World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
 during the 1940s and 1950s. Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock

Paul Jackson Pollock was an influential American painter and a major force in the abstract expressionism movement. In October 1945, he married the artist Lee Krasner....
, Lee Krasner
Lee Krasner

Lee Krasner was an influential abstract expressionism painter in the second half of the 20th century.On October 25th 1945, she married artist Jackson Pollock, who was also influential in the Abstract Expressionism movement....
, James Brooks
James Brooks (painter)

BiographyJames Brooks was an American muralist, abstract painter and winner of the Logan Medal of the arts. Brooks was a friend of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner on Eastern Long Island....
, Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning

Willem de Kooning was an abstract expressionist artist, born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.In the post-World War II era, de Kooning painted in a style that came to be referred to variously as Abstract expressionism, Action painting, and the New York School....
, and several other artists like Lassaw moved during the 1940s and 1950s to the Southern shore of the Eastern end of Long Island, New York, to live and work.

See also

  • Abstract expressionism
    Abstract expressionism

    Abstract expressionism was an American post?World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
  • New York School
    New York School

    The New York School was an informal group of American poets, Paintings, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s, 1960s in New York City. The poets, painters, composers, dancers, and musicians often drew inspiration from Surrealism and the contemporary avant-garde art movements, in particular action painting, abstract expressionism, Jazz...


Sources

  • Marika Herskovic, (New York School Press, 2003.) ISBN 0-9677994-1-4
  • Marika Herskovic, (New York School Press, 2000.) ISBN 0-9677994-0-6


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