Isabelle Waldberg - Artist Info

About Isabelle Waldberg

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    Isabelle Waldberg, née Isabelle Margaretha Maria Farner (10 May 1911 – 12 April 1990) was a French-Swiss sculptor associated with surrealism.

    Isabelle Farner was born on (10 May 1911 in Oberstammheim, Switzerland. She studied under Hannes Meyer in Zürich before moving to Paris in 1936, where she studied under Marcel Gimond at the Académie Colarossi, Robert Vlerick at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere and Charles Malfray at the Académie Ranson.

    Studying in Florence in 1937, she returned to Paris, where she came to know Alberto Giacometti, Georges Bataille, André Masson and her future husband Patrick Waldberg. From 1938 to 1940 she studied sociology and ethnography at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes. S...

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