Louise BOURGEOIS
(1911 – 2010)
French-American sculptor, painter and graphic artist. Many of her feminist artworks were inspired by her own girlhood, she had a very strained relationship with her father | 1911 born in Paris, France | 1933-38 acquires basic skills as a sculptor in Paris, including the “École des Beaux-Arts” and artist’s studios at Montmartre and Montparnasse with Fernand LÉGER, among others | 1938 marries the American art historian Robert Goldwater (1907-1973) and moves to New York | 1982 solo exhibition at the “Museum of Modern Art” in New York, which led to a re-evaluation of her work | 1990s works on Maman, a bronze statue of a giant spider | 1995 documentary film was made about her | 1999 honoured by Praemium Imperiale for sculpture of the Imperial House of Japan | 2010 died in New York City
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