The Worshipper
1952Signed
Size
28 x 22.05 in
Year
1952
Medium
Drawings
Reference
1674e633
1900 Basel, Switzerland
Kurt Seligmann was born in Basel in 1900. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Geneva and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. At the end of the twenties he moved to Paris where he came into contact with exponents of the surrealist movement, participating in the Abstraction-Création group in 1937. At the outbreak of the Second World War he moved to New York, where in 1939 his works were on display at Karl Nierendorf Gallery. He took part in the exhibitions "First Papers of Surrealism" (1941) and "Artists in Exile" (1942), and was an active contributor to the magazines “View” and “VVV”, which contributed to making the themes and proposals of Surrealism known in the United States. United.
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