Hedda Sterne
| Hedda Sterne | |
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Pictured with The Irascibles (in back)
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| Born |
Hedwig Lindenberg August 4, 1910 Bucharest, Romania |
| Died | April 8, 2011 (aged 100) New York City, New York, United States |
| Nationality | Romanian |
| Education | University of Bucharest (1928) Self Taught |
| Known for | Painter; printmaking |
| Notable work | Machine 5, Diary |
| Movement | Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism |
Hedda Sterne (born Hedwig Lindenberg; August 4, 1910 – April 8, 2011) was an artist who created a body of work known for exhibiting a stubborn independence from styles and trends, including Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism, with which she is often associated. She was a member of a group of Abstract Expressionists known as "The Irascibles" and was the only woman in a famous photograph which included Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, and others.
Sterne has been almost completely overlooked in art historical narratives of the post-war American art scene. At the time of her death, possibly the last surviving artist of the first generation of the New York School, Hedda Sterne viewed her widely varied works more as in flux than as definitive statements.
Her second husband was Saul Steinberg the Romanian-born American cartoonist and illustrator. Sterne's works are in the collections of museums including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, also in Washington, D.C.
Sterne was born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1910 as Hedwig Lindenberg. Her parents were Simon Lindenberg, a high school language teacher, and Eugenie (Wexler) Lindenberg. She was the second child; her only sibling, Edouard, later became a prominent conductor in Paris. In 1919, her father Simon died and her mother remarried Leonida Cioara, the partner in their family business.
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