Gego
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Gertrud Louise Goldschmidt (1 August 1912 – 17 September 1994), known as Gego, was a modern German-Venezuelan visual artist. Gego is perhaps best known for her geometric and kinetic sculptures made in the 1960s and 1970s, which she described as "drawings without paper".
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- Works
- 8
Top works
- Acuarelas de Gego
- Gego
- Gego 1957-1988
- Gego, arquitecto
- Gego : obra completa, 1955-1990
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Key facts
- Artist.name
- Gego
- Artist.image
- Photo of Gego.jpg
- Artist.birth_name
- Gertrud Louise Goldschmidt
- Artist.birth_place
- Hamburg, Germany
- Artist.death_place
- Caracas, Venezuela
- Artist.field
- Sculptor, Architect, Printmaker
- Artist.training
- Technische Hochschule of Stuttgart, Germany
- Artist.movement
- Modern Art
- Artist.works
- Reticulárea
- Artist.awards
- Premio Nacional de Artes Plasticas
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Gertrud
- Family name
- Goldschmidt
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Venezuela
- Place of birth
- Hamburg
- Place of death
- Caracas
- Occupation
- draftsperson
- Educated at
- University of Stuttgart
- Employer
- Central University of Venezuela
- Languages spoken
- German
- Religion
- Judaism
- Residence
- Hamburg
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- date of birth
- 1912-01-08
- date of death
- 1994-09-17
- Commons category
- Gego
- pseudonym
- Gego
- birth name
- Gertrud Goldschmidt
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Art+Feminism
- cause of death
- disease
- has works in the collection
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- P8168
- Vacone
- different from
- Jeju
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Early life
- Importance of education
- Career
- Background
- Line
- Space
- Tamarind Lithography Workshop
- Reticulárea
- Personal life
- Death and legacy
- See also
- References
- External links
Gertrud Louise Goldschmidt (1 August 1912 – 17 September 1994), known as Gego, was a modern German-Venezuelan visual artist. Gego is perhaps best known for her geometric and kinetic sculptures made in the 1960s and 1970s, which she described as "drawings without paper".
==Early life== Gertrud Louise Goldschmidt, who went by "Gego", was born on 1 August 1912 in Hamburg, Germany into a Jewish family. She was the sixth of seven children of Eduard Martin Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Hanne Adeline Dehn. Although she was the niece of the medieval art historian Adolf Goldschmidt, who taught at the University of Berlin, she decided to attend the Technische Hochschule of Stuttgart in 1932, where she was taught by the well-known German architect Paul Bonatz. In 1938, she earned a diploma in both architecture and engineering.
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