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ID: 500084577 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500084577			Record Type: Person

Abakanowicz, Magdalena (Polish textile artist and sculptor, 1930-2017)

Note: Polish sculptor and best known for her groups of headless figures made from resin and fiber (and later metal) often installed in public places. She began as a painter, but produced large scale woven sculpture from dyed sisal in the 1960s. Her public installations can be found in Grant Park, Chicago; at the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC; and Warsaw’s Romuald Traugutt Park. The largest collection of her art is in in the collection of the National Museum in Wrocław in Poland. Polish sculptor and best known for her groups of headless figures made from resin and fiber (and later metal) often installed in public places. She began as a painter, but produced large scale woven sculpture from dyed sisal in the 1960s. Her public installations can be found in Grant Park, Chicago; at the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC; and Warsaw’s Romuald Traugutt Park. The largest collection of her art is in in the collection of the National Museum in Wrocaw in Poland.

Names:
	Abakanowicz, Magdalena (preferred,V,index,English-P,NA,U)
	Abakanowicz, Magdalena (Dutch-P,NA)
	Magdalena Abakanowicz (V,display)
	Kosmowski, Magdalena Abakanowicz (V)
	אבאקנוביץ' מגדאלנה (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)

Nationalities:
	Polish (preferred)
	Eastern European
	Central European
	American

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	weaver
	textile artist
	sculptor
	painter
	performance artist
	designer
	teacher

Gender: female


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: Złotopole (Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland) (inhabited place) Died: Warsaw (Mazowieckie, Poland) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:

teacher of ....	Holzhuber, Sebastiaan
..................	(Austrian painter, 1949-) [500567573]

List/Hierarchical Position:

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Persons, Artists

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Abakanowicz, Magdalena (I)

Biographies:

(Polish textile artist and sculptor, 1930-2017) ..... [VP Preferred]
(Polish artist and weaver, born 1930) ..... [BHA]
(Polish artist, born 1930) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(American sculptor, born 1930) ..... [CL-Courtauld]
(Polish sculptor, born 1930) ..... [AVERY]
(Polish artist) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(Polish artist, 1930-2017) ..... [MoMA]
(Polish textile artist and sculptor, 1930-2017) ..... [NMWA]
(Polish weaver, 1930-2017) ..... [IMJ]
(Polish sculptor, 1930-2017) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

אבאקנוביץ' מגדאלנה ........	[IMJ]
....................................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database

Abakanowicz, Magdalena ........	[AVERY Preferred, BHA Preferred, CL-Courtauld Preferred, GRISC Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, IMJ Preferred, MoMA Preferred, NMWA Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
..............................................	Artforum [online] (2004-) obit.
..............................................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..............................................	Avery Authority files (1963-)
..............................................	BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..............................................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
..............................................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
..............................................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database
..............................................	National Museum of Women in the Arts Collection Records
..............................................	NMWA database (2018-)
..............................................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 118106
..............................................	Witt Library, Authority files

Kosmowski, Magdalena Abakanowicz ........	[BHA]
.................................................................	BHA, Authority file (1973-)

Magdalena Abakanowicz ........	[CL-Courtauld, GRISC, MoMA, VP]
............................................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
............................................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules
............................................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)


Note:
English	..........	[AVERY, VP]
	..........	Artforum [online] (2004-) obit.
	..........	Landscape architecture, 2007 Oct., v.97, n.10 126
	..........	NMWA database (2018-)

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