person

Alexander Liberman

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• Nationality: Russia
• Birthday: 1912

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Alexander Liberman was born in 1912 in Kiev, Russia (now the Ukraine). He studied at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris in the early 1930's. Liberman came to New York in 1941 and joined Vogue. He went on to become the Editorial Director of Condé Nast Publications in 1962. By the mid-1950's, Liberman was exhibiting his own paintings and photographs in galleries and museums around New York. In 1959, he learned to weld steel and quickly began making monumental sculpture. Liberman's highly recognizable steel sculptures are assembled from industrial objects often painted in bright, uniform colors. One of his first public commissions was from the architect Philip Johnson for a pavilion at the 1963 World's Fair. Liberman's sculptures and paintings are included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; New York, and the Tate Modern, London.