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Alexander Liberman Russian / American ( 1912-1999 ) Alexander Liberman was born in Kiev, Russia in 1912. Fleeing the revolution his family moved to Paris, and there in the 1930s Liberman studied architecture, worked as a set designer, and began his own work as a painter and photographer. In 1941 he and his family moved again, to New York, and he began working there for Conde Nast magazines, eventually becoming Editorial Director. Through his friendship with many of the principal artists of the period, as well as commissioning works for the magazine by these artists, he played an important role in introducing avant-garde art, through magazine style and content, to a wider audience. Liberman had begun exhibiting his own paintings and photographs by the mid-1950s, and by the end of the decade was producing the welded steel sculptures for which he is now particularly well-known. He exhibited widely during the 1960s and 1970s, including at the Betty Parsons Gallery, and has had exhihbitions more recently at Andre Emmerich Gallery, Ameringer and Yohe, and Gagosian Gallery (1993), all in New York, and at Manny Silverman Gallery in Los Angeles (2002). Liberman's work is represented in the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Tate Gallery, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, De Cordova Museum, and Storm King Art Center, amongst others. Interestingly, these visually-striking lithographs pre-date the graphic work of Ellsworth Kelly by at least two years.

 

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