Alexander Liberman

Alexander Liberman (Sept. 4, 1912-Nov. 19, 1999) was a Russian-American publisher, painter, and sculptor. Bornin Kiev, he was educated in Paris, where he began his publishing career with the early pictorial magazine Vu. After emigrating to New York in 1941, he began working for Conde Nast Publications, rising to the position of Editorial Director, which he held from 1962-1994.

It was only in the 1950s that Liberman took up painting and, later, metal sculpture. His highly recognizable sculptures are assembled from industrial objects (segments of steel I-beams, pipes, drums, etc.,) often painted in uniform bright colors. Prominent examples are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Storm King Art Center, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Tate Gallery, and the Guggenheim Museum.

References

* Radford, Georgia and Warren Radford, "Sculpture in the Sun, Hawaii's Art for Open Spaces", University of Hawaii Press, 1978, 94.

External links

*http://artscenecal.com/ArtistsFiles/LibermanA/LiebermanAFile/ALiberman0302.html
*http://www.stormking.org/AlexanderLiberman.html
*http://www.the-artists.org/ArtistView.cfm?id=4D88AC06-0937-E545-D68D35251EC23171
* [http://www.adcglobal.org/archive/hof/1975/?id=284 Art Directors Club biography and portrait]