Edith Balas

Edith Balas is a Professor of Art History, College of Humanities & Social Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Born June 20, 1929 in Cluj, Romania, she is a Holocaust survivor, art professor, and historian. She is the widow of the late mathematician Egon Balas, who was a professor at Carnegie Mellon.[1]

Balas' main areas of interest are modern art (1890-1960), painting and sculpture, and the art of the Italian Renaissance.[2][3][4][5] In 2003, she curated an exhibition at the Frick Art Museum,[6] and several in Pittsburgh, Paris, New York and Budapest. She has been teaching at Carnegie Mellon University since 1977, and is also an Adjunct Professor of History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh.

Edith Balas is also a Holocaust survivor, having been sent to the Nazi death camp Auschwitz. In Bird in Flight: Memoir of a Survivor and Scholar, Balas tells her story of facing grim situations and becoming what she describes as a “professional survivor.” Balas named her memoir “Bird in Flight” after Constantin Brâncuși’s famous sculpture of the same name. “I consider it emblematic of my life,” she said.[7]

After the war her husband was imprisoned by the communist authorities for three years, during which Balas raised their two daughters. She received an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Bucharest in 1952.[8] She then emigrated to the United States with her husband, and received an M.A. in the History of Arts from Pittsburgh University in 1970 and a Ph.D. in 1973.

Works
  • Balas, Edith (2008). Brancusi and his world. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press. ISBN 978-0887484896.
  • Balas, Edith (2006). Brancusi & Romanian folk traditions. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press. ISBN 978-0887484599.
  • Balas, Edith (2004). Michelangelo's double self-portraits. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press. ISBN 978-0887484179.
  • Balas, Edith (1995). Michelangelo's Medici Chapel : a new interpretation. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. ISBN 978-0871692160.
  • Balas, Edith (2002). The Holocaust in the painting of Valentin Lustig. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press. ISBN 978-0887483738.
  • Koerner, Henry (2003). The early work of Henry Koerner. Pittsburgh, Pa: Frick Art & Historical Center. ISBN 978-0970342553.
  • Balas, Edith (2010). Bird in flight : memoir of a survivor and scholar. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press. ISBN 978-0887485381.
  • Edith Balas, "Michelangelo's Medici Chapel: A New Interpretation", Philadelphia, 1995
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See also

References
  1. "Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh » Edith Balas". holocaustcenterpgh.org. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
  2. Beck, James (July 1998). "Review: Michelangelo's Medici Chapel: A New Interpretation. Edith Balas". Renaissance Quarterly. 51 (2): 620–621. doi:10.2307/2901595.
  3. Emison, Patricia (June 2005). "Review: Michelangelo's Double Self-Portraits by Edith Balas". Renaissance Quarterly. 58 (2): 600–602. doi:10.1353/ren.2008.0719.
  4. Feinstein, Steve (2003). "The Holocaust in the Painting of Valentin Lustig (review)". Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. 21 (3): 190–192. doi:10.1353/sho.2003.0013.
  5. Thomas, Mary. "Art Reviews: Painter goes deep into both Holocaust history and his own story". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
  6. Thomas, Mary. "Art Review: Frick exhibits explore two artists' sense of loss". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
  7. (CMU), Carnegie Mellon University. "March 22: CMU's Edith Balas Pens Memoir Depicting Life as a Survivor and Scholar - Carnegie Mellon University - CMU". www.cmu.edu. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
  8. University, Carnegie Mellon. "Edith Balas - Center for the Arts in Society - Carnegie Mellon University". www.cmu.edu. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
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