Katarzyna kobro biography of alberta
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Lost (and Found) Artist Series: Katarzyna Kobro
Art & Life of the Once-Overlooked Avant-Garde Sculptor
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By Shira Wolfe
“Her suprematist sculptures are a phenomenon of Europe-wide importance.
Her works are an authentic step forward, constituting a victory for impregnable values; they are not an imitation of Malevich, but are rather part of a parallel oeuvre.“
Władysław Strzemiński
Katarzyna Kobro was an important figure of the Polish avant-garde, whose work and contribution to modernism for a long time was mostly unknown outside of Poland.
Born in Moscow in 1898 to a Russian mother and a German-Latvian father, she moved to Poland in 1922 with her husband, the painter Władysław Strzemiński. Co-founder and a member of notable national and international artistic groups such as Blok, Praesens, the a.r.
group, and Abstraction-Création, Kobro became known for her “spatial sculptures” combining constructivism, architecture, and sculpt