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Sonia Delaunay (1885–1979)

Autor(a) de Sonia Delaunay, a Retrospective

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Obras por Sonia Delaunay

Associated Works

History of Modern Art (1969) — Artista da capa, algumas edições1,043 exemplares
LUNA LUNA - Ermoglicht Von Neue Revue (1987) — Artist; Artist — 14 exemplares
Gender in Modernism: New Geographies, Complex Intersections (2007) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares

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Conhecimento Comum

Outros nomes
Delaunay-Terk, Sonia
Data de nascimento
1885-11-14
Data de falecimento
1979-12-05
Localização do túmulo
Gambais, France
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
Russia (birth)
France
Local de nascimento
Gradizhsk, Ukraine, Russian Empire
Local de falecimento
Paris, France
Locais de residência
St. Petersburg, Russia
Karlsruhe, Germany
Paris, France
Madrid, Spain
Montpellier, France
Educação
Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe
Académie de La Palette
Ocupações
artist
costume designer
set designer
textile designer
jewelry designer
clothing designer (mostrar todos 7)
autobiographer
Relações
Delaunay, Robert (husband)
Organizações
Ballets Russes
Prémios e menções honrosas
Legion d'Honneur (1975)

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Sonia Delaunay was born Sarah Stern, nicknamed "Sonia," to a Jewish family in a village in the Ukraine. Her father was a factory worker who rose to become foreman. At age 5, Sonia went to live with her wealthy maternal uncle and his wife in St. Petersburg, and took their surname Terk; eventually they adopted her. She had a better education and more privileged lifestyle with the Terks, who spent their summers in Finland and traveled widely in Europe. Sonia learned to speak French, German and English, and was taken to art museums and galleries. Her artistic skills as a teenager were noted by her secondary school teacher. At age 18, she was sent to art school in Germany, where she studied for two years until 1905, when she moved to Paris. There she entered the Académie de La Palette in Montparnasse, lived with Russian friends in the Latin Quarter, and visited art galleries in and around Paris. Her own work at this time was influenced by Van Gogh, Gauguin, and the Fauvistes. In 1908, she married Wilhelm Uhde, the owner of an art gallery who gave her her first solo show. It was a short-lived union that's considered to have been a marriage of convenience, perhaps to help Sonia avoid returning to Russia. Sonia met Robert Delaunay, a neighbor, in 1909. They became lovers and married in 1910; their son Charles was born shortly afterwards. Sonia Delaunay and her husband shared a similar aesthetic and developed the art movement known as Orphism, also called Simultaneism, an offshoot of Cubism mixed with Futurism. Their work featured repeating geometric patterns in bold colors, based partly on Russian folk art that Sonia had known as a child. In 1918, Sonia Delaunay designed her first set of costumes for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. While her husband focused on painting, Sonia went on to create costumes and sets for various theatrical organizations, as well as fabrics, tapestries, and clothing, and even painted a car. The Delaunays created several wall-sized murals for the 1937 Paris World’s Fair. They fled at the start of World War II for Montpellier, where Robert died in 1941. Sonia published several books on her work and from the 1950s on, received numerous awards. In 1964 she became the first living female artist to have a retrospective exhibition at the Louvre, and in 1975 she was awarded the Legion of Honor. Later she developed a range of textiles, tableware, and jewellery inspired by her work from the 1920s. Her autobiography, Nous irons jusqu'au soleil (We Shall Go Up to the Sun) was published in 1978.

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Estatísticas

Obras
17
Also by
3
Membros
86
Popularidade
#213,013
Avaliação
4.0
ISBN
14
Línguas
4

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