ARTIST

Alexander Liberman

1912–1999 · Russian Empire

Magazine titan who shaped Vogue for decades, then screamed through monumental sculptures of welded oil tanks.

ABOUT

Alexander Semeonovitch Liberman (September 4, 1912 – November 19, 1999) was a Ukrainian-American magazine editor, publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor. He held senior artistic positions during his 32 years at Condé Nast Publications. == Life and career == Liberman was born into a Jewish family in Kyiv. When his father took a post advising the Soviet government, the family moved to Moscow. Life there became difficult, and his father secured permission from Lenin and…

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NOTABLE WORKS
Minimum 1949 · Museum of Modern Art Rotating 1950 · Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Two Circles 1950 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art Interchange 1951 · Whitney Museum of American Art Giacometti 1958 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art Germaine Richier, Sculptor 1958 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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