Word: nierendorf
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...bronzes and terra cottas were heavily influenced by French Cubist Sculptor Henri Laurens, and their dominant rhythm was taken from Mayan art-a blockish, crankshaft-like sequence of shapes. They may have been stylistically uncertain, but they were powerful, and on seeing them, a leading New York dealer named Nierendorf gave Nevelson her first one-woman show, in 1941. She was past 40, an age when some artists start thinking not about their debuts but about their retrospectives...
...lumber, her young hands made bits of her imaginary universe out of driftwood and scraps. She moved into New York at 18, studied under Kenneth Hayes Miller at the Art Students League, then went to Germany, where she worked (in 1931) with Painter Hans Hofmann. In 1940 Karl Nierendorf (who championed Paul Klee in the U.S.) discovered her, staged her first one-woman show at his gallery...
...display in the Germanic Museum a well-rounded representation of the con-objective works of Vastly Kandinsky, Russian painter who pioneered in revolutionary trend toward post-impressionism during 1909 and 1910. The exhibition, presented by the College Art Association through the assistance of Karl Nierendorf and several other lenders, will be on view until April...
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