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Today she and her husband have a well-equipped machine shop of their own in Paris where they arc-weld great quantities of stainless steel and brass tubing into abstract sculptures that exude a confidence in the mechanical world and at the same time, from certain oblique angles, suddenly open...
When the two artists arrived at West Berlin's Borsig machine-tool factory to use the company's huge cutting and welding facilities, they were met with scorn. "We start work at 6:45 a.m.," the factory hands pointedly declared, fully expecting them to saunter in each day...
Basic Grammar. Today the sculpture they welded at the Borsig factory stands outside West Berlin's Free University, a soaring monument to the country's postwar technological strides. Similar commissions by the pair, along with a large exhibition currently traveling throughout West Germany, reveal a technical facility in...
Brigitte had struggled long to reach the top, in her early student days was even expelled from a Munich art school for lack of talent. Fortunately, British Sculptor Henry Moore saw at least a spark, in 1947 admitted her to his studio for study. "I executed a madonna in stone...
Oblique Allusions. Independent and stubborn, Brigitte was soon steering her own course, combining something of the totemic power of Moore with the welding techniques of Pevsner. In 1959 she received Paris' coveted Prix Bour-delle from a jury that included Giacometti, Arp, Lipchitz and Moore, went on to represent...