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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