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Alexander Semeonovitch Liberman (September 4, 1912 – November 19, 1999) was a Ukrainian-American magazine editor, publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor. He held senior artistic positions during his 32 years at Condé Nast Publications.

Alexander Liberman
Born
Alexander Semeonovitch Liberman

(1912-09-04)September 4, 1912
Kyiv, Ukraine, then in Russian Empire
DiedNovember 19, 1999(1999-11-19) (aged 87)
Miami, Florida, US
NationalityRussian, American (after 1946)
EducationUniversity School, Hastings, Sussex, England, 192122
St. Pirans School, Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, 192324
Ecole des Roches, 19241927
Sorbonne, 19271930, philosophy and mathematics,
studied painting, under André Lhote, Paris, 1931
Ecole Speciale d'Architecture, Paris, 193132 (under Auguste Perret)
École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, 193233
Occupationmagazine editor, publisher
painter, photographer, sculptor
Employer(s)Vogue magazine (1943)
Condé Nast Publications (19601994)
TitleEditorial Director
Spouse(s)Hildegarde Sturm (1936??)
Tatiana Yacovleff du Plessix (19421991)
Melinda Pechangco (19921999)
ChildrenFrancine du Plessix Gray
stepdaughter, not adopted
Notes
Alexander Liberman, Gate of Hope, painted steel, 1972, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Alexander Liberman, Gate of Hope, painted steel, 1972, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Liberman's Two Circles (1950) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Liberman's Two Circles (1950) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Life and career


Liberman was born into a Jewish family in Kyiv. When his father took a post advising the Soviet government, the family moved to Moscow. Life there became difficult, and his father secured permission from Lenin and the Politburo to take his son to London in 1921.

Young Liberman was educated in Ukraine, England, and France, where he took up life as a "White émigré" in Paris.

He began his publishing career in Paris in 1933–1936 with the early pictorial magazine Vu, where he worked under Lucien Vogel as art director, then managing editor, working with photographers such as Brassaï, André Kertész, and Robert Capa.[6]

After emigrating to New York in 1941, he began working for Condé Nast Publications, rising to the position of editorial director, which he held from 1962 to 1994.

Only in the 1950s did Liberman take up painting and, later, metal sculpture. His highly recognizable sculptures are assembled from industrial objects (segments of steel I-beams, pipes, drums, and such), often painted in uniform bright colors. In a 1986 interview concerning his formative years as a sculptor and his aesthetic, Liberman said, "I think many works of art are screams, and I identify with screams."[7] His massive work The Way, a 65 feet (20 m) x 102 feet (31 m) x 100 feet (30 m) structure,[8] is made of eighteen salvaged steel oil tanks, and became a signature piece of Laumeier Sculpture Park,[9] and a major landmark of St. Louis, Missouri.[10][11]

Before finding success in painting and sculpture, Liberman was a photographer. Beginning in 1948, he spent his summers visiting and photographing a generation of modern European artists working in their studios including Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, Maurice Utrillo, Marc Chagall, Marcel Duchamp, Constantin Brancusi, and Pablo Picasso. In 1959 the Museum of Modern Art in New York City exhibited Liberman's photographs of artists and their studios. A year later the images were collected in Liberman's first book, The Artist in his Studio published by Viking Press (Kazanjian and Tomkins, 1993[12]).

He was married briefly to Hildegarde Sturm (August 25, 1936), a model and competitive skier. His second wife (since 1942), Tatiana Yacovleff du Plessix Liberman (1906–1991), had been a childhood playmate and baby sitter. In 1941, they escaped together from occupied France, via Lisbon, to New York. She had operated a hat salon in Paris, then designed hats for Henri Bendel in Manhattan. She continued in millinery at Saks Fifth Avenue where she was billed as "Tatiana du Plessix" or "Tatiana of Saks", until the mid-1950s.[13] In 1992, he married Melinda Pechangco, a nurse who had cared for Tatiana during an early illness. His stepdaughter, Francine du Plessix Gray, was a noted author.


Career


Liberman started his career as a part-time design assistant to graphic artist A. M. Cassandre in Paris for approximately three months in 1930. He started working as a full-time painter in 1936. Then, he served in the French army in the 1940s but was rejected due to ulcers.[7] He began taking photographs in 1949 and sculpting in 1958. Liberman was employed at Vogue magazine from 1941 for 58 years. He was hired by Condé Nast as an assistant to Vogue art director Mehemed Fehmy Agha against Agha's wishes and took over the position a year later. From 1941 to 1962, Liberman succeeded Agha as the magazine's art editor. As part of his work as Vogue art director from 1944 to 1961, he published Lee Miller's photographs of the Buchenwald gas chambers. In 1962, he was promoted to editorial director of all Condé Nast publications, United States and Europe, deputy chairman (editorial) from 1994 to 1999. Throughout his life, Liberman held numerous exhibitions of paintings and sculptures.


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Collections


Liberman's work is held in the following collections:


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References


  1. Carmody, Deirdre (1999-11-20). "Alexander Liberman, Condé Nast's Driving Creative Force, Is Dead at 87". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-11-02.
  2. Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2008. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC. Fee. Accessed 2008-11-02. Entry updated: 12/07/2006. Document Number: H1000059908.
  3. "Alexander Liberman." Contemporary Photographers, 3rd ed. St. James Press, 1996. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC. Updated: 09/19/2002. Fee. Accessed 2008-11-02. Document Number: K1653000394.
  4. "Alexander Semeonovitch Liberman."The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Volume 5: 1997-1999. Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC. Fee. Accessed 2008-11-02. Document Number not given.
  5. "Alexander Liberman." Contemporary Artists, 5th ed. St. James Press, 2001. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC. Updated: 10/01/2001. Fee. Accessed 2008-11-02. Document Number: K1636001282
  6. Morris, Susan (Autumn 1993). "There's no art in magazines". Eye. Quantum publishing. Archived from the original on 2007-10-10. Retrieved 2008-11-04.
  7. Liberman, Alexander. "Alexander Liberman", [BOMB Magazine] Summer, 1986. Retrieved April 15, 2012.
  8. "Restoration of 'The Way' underway". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. September 27, 2011. Archived from the original on December 31, 2019. Retrieved August 13, 2012.
  9. "The Way, 1972-80". Laumeier Sculpture Park. Archived from the original on January 31, 2012. Retrieved August 13, 2012.
  10. Silva, Eddie (January 19, 2000). "Queen Beej". The Riverfront Times. Archived from the original on August 14, 2012. Retrieved August 13, 2012.
  11. Keaggy, Diane Toroian (September 21, 2011). "Iconic Laumeier sculpture 'The Way' to be restored". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Archived from the original on October 28, 2018. Retrieved August 13, 2012.
  12. Kazanjian, Dodie (1993). Alex, The Life of Alexander Liberman. New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf. pp. 174–180, 221. ISBN 039457964X.
  13. Gray, Francine du Plessix (1995-05-08). "Growing up Fashionable". The New Yorker. p. 54. Retrieved 2008-11-02.
  14. Originally commissioned for and displayed at the New York State Pavilion of the 1964 New York World's Fair, gifted by the artist to the University of Minnesota. "University Accepts Sculptures," Minneapolis Tribune, February 27, 1966.
  15. "Empire State Plaza Art Collection". Retrieved 6 November 2018.
  16. "100 Things We Love About Denison". Denison Magazine. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  17. "'Dueling Tampons' graffited". The Daily Pennsylvanian. Retrieved 2 January 2020.



На других языках


[de] Alexander Liberman

Alexander Liberman (* 4. September 1912 Kiew; † 19. November 1999 in Miami Beach (Florida)) war ein amerikanischer Herausgeber, Maler, Bildhauer und Fotograf.
- [en] Alexander Liberman

[es] Alexander Liberman

Alexander Semeonovitch Liberman (Kiev, 4 de septiembre de 1912 - Miami, 19 de noviembre de 1999) fue un pintor, fotógrafo, escultor y editor ucraniano que se encargó de la dirección artística y editorial de Vogue en Estados Unidos.[1]

[ru] Либерман, Александр (художник)

Алекса́ндр (А́лекс) Либерма́н (англ. Alexander Liberman; полное имя Александр Семёнович Либерман; 4 сентября 1912, Киев — 19 ноября 1999) — французский и американский художник, скульптор и редактор.



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