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1912 Kalocsa, Austria-Hungary - 1992 Paris, France. Known for: Geometrlic, constructivist, kinetic sculpture.
Nicolas Schöffer, (born September 6, 1912, Kalocsa, Austria-Hungary [now in Hungary]—died January 8, 1992, Paris, France), Hungarian-born French artist best known for his sculptures employing... Read full biography
Nicolas Schöffer, (born September 6, 1912, Kalocsa, Austria-Hungary [now in Hungary]—died January 8, 1992, Paris, France), Hungarian-born French artist best known for his sculptures employing mechanical movement, light, and sound. Schöffer studied painting at the School of Fine Arts in Budapest... Read full biography
Nicolas Schöffer, (born September 6, 1912, Kalocsa, Austria-Hungary [now in Hungary]—died January 8, 1992, Paris, France), Hungarian-born French artist best known for his sculptures employing mechanical movement, light, and sound. Schöffer studied painting at the School of Fine Arts in Budapest from 1932 to 1935 and then at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He became a French citizen in 1948. Between 1941 and 1951 he held a variety of jobs, including those of foundry worker and hotel porter.... Read full biography
Nicolas Schöffer, (born September 6, 1912, Kalocsa, Austria-Hungary [now in Hungary]—died January 8, 1992, Paris, France), Hungarian-born French artist best known for his sculptures employing mechanical movement, light, and sound. Schöffer studied painting at the School of Fine Arts in Budapest from 1932 to 1935 and then at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He became a French citizen in 1948. Between 1941 and 1951 he held a variety of jobs, including those of foundry worker and hotel porter. Schöffer’s early metal sculptures, from the mid-1940s, reflect the hard-edged, self-consciously “modern” influences of Constructivism and Neoplasticism. The later kinetic works, which are variously concerned with the viewer’s experience of space,... Read full biography
Nicolas Schöffer, (born September 6, 1912, Kalocsa, Austria-Hungary [now in Hungary]—died January 8, 1992, Paris, France), Hungarian-born French artist best known for his sculptures employing mechanical movement, light, and sound. Schöffer studied painting at the School of Fine Arts in Budapest from 1932 to 1935 and then at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He became a French citizen in 1948. Between 1941 and 1951 he held a variety of jobs, including those of foundry worker and hotel porter. Schöffer’s early metal sculptures, from the mid-1940s, reflect the hard-edged, self-consciously “modern” influences of Constructivism and Neoplasticism. The later kinetic works, which are variously concerned with the viewer’s experience of space, light, and time, Schöffer christened “spatiodynamic,” “luminodynamic,” and “chronodynamic.” . These works characteristically employ rot... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Kinetic Energy
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
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Art School
- •Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, Student
- •Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, Student