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Magdalena Abakanowicz
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Polish textile artist and sculptor (1930-2017)
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Magdalena Abakanowicz was a female sculptor, designer, and university teacher born in Falenty in 1930. She worked in the fields of fiber art, textile art, and sculpture, often creating figurative art within the contemporary art movement. Her professional career included roles as an athletics competitor and educator at the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts Poznań. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, and worked in Poznań, Sopot, and Warsaw.
She was a member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her awards included the Herder Prize and the Pour le Mérite. Abakanowicz spoke French, Polish, and English. She died in Warsaw in 2017 and was buried at Powązki Military Cemetery. Her copyright representative was Magdalena Abakanowicz.
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Key facts
- Born
- Marta Magdalena Abakanowicz , ( 1930-06-20 ) 20 June 1930, Falenty , Poland
- Died
- 20 April 2017 (2017-04-20) (aged 86), Warsaw , Poland
- Education
- Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts
- Known for
- Sculpture fiber art
- Notable work
- Agora (2006), Birds of Knowledge of Good and Evil (2001)
- Movement
- Postminimalism
- Awards
- Herder Prize (1979) Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts (1999)
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Official website
Magdalena Abakanowicz - fundacja
Fundacja Marta Magdalena Abakanowicz Kosmowska i Jan Kosmowski - fundacja
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Magdalena
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Poland
- Place of birth
- Falenty
- Place of death
- Warsaw
- Occupation
- installation artist
- Educated at
- Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw
- Languages spoken
- French
- Field of work
- textile art
- Genre
- figurative art
- Movement
- contemporary art
- Sport
- athletics
- Official website
- www.abakanowicz.art.pl
- Image
- Magdalena Abakanowicz crop 3x4.jpg
- Work location
- Warsaw
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- Magdalena Abakanowicz
- date of birth
- 1930-06-20
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- Magdalena Abakanowicz
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- Magdalena Abakanowicz
- name in native language
- Magdalena Abakanowicz
- date of death
- 2017-04-20
- place of burial
- Powązki Military Cemetery
- pseudonym
- Abakanovitchi, Magudarēna
- has works in the collection
- The Central Museum of Textiles
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Encyclopedic overview
Magdalena Abakanowicz ( Polish pronunciation: [maɡdaˈlɛna abakaˈnɔvit͡ʂ] aba-ka-NO-vich; 20 June 1930 – 20 April 2017) was a Polish sculptor and fiber artist. Known for her use of textiles as a sculptural medium and for outdoor installations, Abakanowicz has been considered among the most influential Polish artists of the postwar era. She worked as a professor of studio art at the University of Fine Arts in Poznań, Poland, from 1965 to 1990, and as a visiting professor at University of California, Los Angeles in 1984.
She was born to a noble landowning family in Falenty, near Warsaw, before the outbreak of World War II. Her formative years were marred by the Nazi occupation of Poland, during which her family became part of the Polish resistance. After the war, under the imposed communist rule, Abakanowicz attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Sopot and the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw between 1950 and 1954, navigating a conservative educational environment marked by the imposition of Soviet-dictated restrictive and propagandistic doctrine of Socialist Realism.
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