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Lucia Stern

Lucia Stern (1895 - 1987) was active/lived in Wisconsin.  Lucia Stern is known for Non objective, other modern.

Lucia Stern was born Martha Ida Lucia Karker  and was an important figure in Wisconsin progressive art.  Although her formal education was in music and literature (1918-1922), she was increasingly drawn to visual art. Her early influences were Matisse and Picasso, the two giants who also influenced each other.   In 1930, she married Milwaukee lawyer-politician Erich Stern with whom she took annual trips to Europe, each time expanding their art connections.  She was a friend
of many important champions of non-objective art, including eminent Bauhaus artist  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946), who painted a portrait of her, with whom she exhibited and whose book on art theory, titled, Vision in Motion, remained a steady influence on her. 


Another friend was Baroness Hilla Rebay, director of the Museum of Non-Objective Painting in New York City (later called The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum), who collected and exhibit   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4534 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Lucia Stern

   Publications  Book References:  10
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10 Book References for Lucia Stern
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1997 Merrill, Peter C German-American Artists in Early Milwaukee: A Biographyical Dictionary 165 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117 No
1986 Chetham, Charles; David Grose A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art 312 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1973 Collins, Jim L. Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present 426 No
1944 The Art Institute of Chicago The Fifty-fifth Annual American Exhibition: Water Colors and Drawings
(Exhibition catalog)
22 No
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