MARCEL BREUER
1902-1981
Marcel Breuer was born in Pécs, Hungary and became one of the
greatest architects and furniture designers of the 20th century .
He studied and taught at Germany's Bauhaus, a school of modern
design. From 1946 he headed his own firm, Marcel Breuer &
Associates in New York until his retirement in 1976. Using new
materials to distinguish his own style, the Wassily Chair B3, in
1925, became one of his most famous design pieces.
Breuer produced some of the most lasting furniture designs of the
twentieth century
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HARRY BERTOIA
1915-1978 USA
Born in Italy he emigrated with his family to American in 1930. He
established a metal working studio in Detroit from 1939-1943.
Later he worked with Charles & Ray Eames developing techniques
for moulding plywood. His wire chairs designed for Knoll
International in 1951 were extremely successful.
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CLARA BIERMAN
Growing up on a farm in rural Ontario, and having lived in British
Columbia, Alberta, and Prince Edward Island, I have had the
opportunity to enjoy nature all across Canada. For me, the road to
being an artist has taken many turns. After a few years of nursing
and raising a family, I enrolled in the art program at Calvin College
(Grand Rapids, M.I.) and later at Fanshawe College in Ontario.
While continuing to work in the health field,I had my first solo
exhibition in Smithers, B.C. in 1987, and have done numerous
commissioned works. I currently reside in Charlottetown, P.E.I.,
and work full time in my Studio at home.
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Graciela Rodo Boulanger - (born 1935) is a Bolivian painter.
Boulanger was born in La Paz and was early influenced in her love
of painting and music by her mother, a concert pianist, and her
father, a businessman and art connoisseur. She studied music
and art throughout childhood, giving her first piano recital at 15,
and art exhibitions in Vienna and Salzburg age 18.
Pursuing her dream to be both a great artist and a musician
Boulanger soon found that time would not allow the necessary
devotion to both her passions. At 22, she turned all of her energy
to painting. She studied etching and printmaking along with Rene
Carcan under Johnny Friedlaender in Paris.
In 2000, Graciela Rodo Boulanger’s artistic effort began to be
realized when she published her first editions of engravings and
first exhibited in the United States. In 1979, UNICEF designated
her official artist for the International Year of the Child poster and
two of her tapestries were presented in the hall of the UN General
Assembly. The Museum of Modern Art of Latin America in
Washington, DC, gave a retrospective of her oeuvre in 1983. In
1986, the Metropolitan Opera of New York commissioned her
poster for Mozart’s The Magic Flute,and her paintings were shown
by the Art Gallery of Lincoln Center. In 1993, the World
Federation of the UN Associations chose one of her paintings to
illustrate both a stamp and a limited-edition print on endangered
species.
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