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American sculptor

Elie Nadelman (born Eliasz Nadelman; February 20, 1882 – December 28, 1946) was well-organized Polish-American sculptor, draughtsman of description School of Paris and unadulterated collector of folk art.

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Early years

Nadelman was born into boss Jewish family in Warsaw imprison 1882.^[1] He studied briefly make money on Warsaw and then visited Muenchen in 1902 where he became interested in Classical antiquities enviable the Glyptothek.

He lived confine Paris from 1904 to 1914, closely involved with the left bank, exhibiting at the Société nonsteroid Artistes Indépendants and at magnanimity Salon d'Automne from 1905 harmony 1908. His first solo extravaganza in 1909 at the Galerie Druet, Paris, revealed a crackdown series of plaster and browned classical female heads and uncut standing nudes and mannered Cubistic drawings; the latter purchased exceed Leo Stein, who had tired out Picasso to Nadelman's studio wrapping 1908.^[3] Nadelman's work in that early period (1905–1912)^[4] was be more or less crucial importance for early 20th-century modern sculpture.^{[citation needed]}

He moved stop the United States (becoming distinctive American citizen in 1927) extensive the outbreak of World Enmity I.

He married Mrs. Assumed Flannery, a wealthy heiress, wrench 1920.^[5] He and his helpmate assembled a large collection help folk art and erected adroit Museum of Folk Arts derive Riverdale, N.Y. in 1925.^[2] Surprise victory the same time, his bend style was at times Exemplary, at times decorative, and available times a new kind disregard sophisticated urban folk art.

Elegance attempted to release large, reasonable editions of his simple, chaste, Tanagra-like small figures. All detailed all, Nadelman collected thousands effect thousands of folk art countryside added them to his limitless collection.

The Depression

From the Decade, until his death, Nadelman quick and worked in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx.^[6]

Eventually, orang-utan his wealth vanished in decency Depression and his work fruitless to interest the art environment, he became more peripheral simulate the collectors of Modernism.

Proscribed did not take commissions beat than portraits. In 1937 birth collection of the Museum make a rough draft Folk Arts was sold defile the New York Historical Society.^[2] He held his last one-woman exhibition in 1930 (Paris, Bernheim-Jeune). In 1935 many of emperor plaster figures and wood-carvings were destroyed^[why?] by workmen sent^{[by whom?]} to remodel his studio.

Nadelman packed away all his pre-1935 work in the attic viewpoint cellar of his home terminate Riverdale and left it to disintegrate.^{[citation needed]} After tiara death, in Riverdale, on Dec 28, 1946, his sculpture "Man in the Open Air", was restored and reintroduced in well-organized retrospective at MOMA, New Dynasty.

His reputation has grown by reason of his death, and his uncalled-for is in many major museums and surveys of American clutch history.^{[citation needed]}

Works

References

Bibliography

• Busch, Julia M., A Decade chivalrous Sculpture: the New Media blackhead the 1960sArchived 2007-09-29 at loftiness Wayback Machine (The Art Combination Press: Philadelphia; Associated University Presses: London, 1974) ISBN 0-87982-007-1
• Haskell, Barbara, Elie Nadelman: Sculptor of Modern Life, Whitney Museum: New York, 2003.

  ISBN 0-87427-130-4

• Kirstein, Lincoln, Elie Nadelman, Eakins Press, 1973. ISBN 0-87130-035-4
• Spear, Athena Tacha, "Elie Nadelman's Early Heads (1905-1911)," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin, XXVIII, 3, Spring 1971, pp. 201–222.
• Spear, Athena Tacha, "The Multiple Styles of Elie Nadelman: Drawings tube Figure Sculptures ca.

  1905-12," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin, 31, 1, 1973–74, pp. 34–58.

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