Richard Lippold
Richard Lippold (May 3, 1915 Milwaukee, Wisconsin – August 22, 2002) was an American sculptor, known for his geometric constructions using wire as a medium.
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 Lippold working on a sculpture, circa 1950 | |
| Born | May 3, 1915 Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| Died | August 22, 2002 (aged 87) |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Sculpture |
He studied at the University of Chicago, and graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in industrial design in 1937.[1] Lippold worked as an industrial designer from 1937 to 1941. After he became a sculptor, Lippold taught at several universities, including Hunter College at the City University of New York, from 1952 to 1967.
The Lippold Foundation is laboriously maintaining his work. Howard Newman:
Lippold was an engineering genius, but we've been dealing with a piece that had reached the threshold of catastrophe,...People's mouths fall open when they see it going back up, like they're watching a spider spin a web of blazing gold,..."The more that goes up, the more exquisite it gets.[2]
The 14th and 15th of John Cage's famous Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano are subtitled Gemini - after the work of Richard Lippold.
Works
- Ad Astra, at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC
- Aerial Act, at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut
- Orpheus and Apollo, at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City,[3]
- Radiant I, at the Inland Steel Building in Chicago, 1957[4]
- Sun, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, which includes more than two miles of gold wire
- World Tree, within the Walter Gropius-designed Harvard Graduate Center at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[5]
- Fire Bird at the Segerstrom Center For The Arts in Costa Mesa, California
- Ex Stasis at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Wings of Welcome at the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee
- Encounter at Fairlane Town Center, Dearborn, Michigan (Currently put away in storage.) [6]
- Flight at MetLife, New York, NY
References
- Encyclopædia Britannica. "Richard Lippold (American sculptor) - Britannica Online Encyclopedia". Britannica.com. Retrieved 2010-07-29.
- "Wired: Preserving the Installations of Richard Lippold", The New York Times, EVE M. KAHN, January 8, 2009
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-10-09. Retrieved 2006-03-27.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- Joan Marter. The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art, (Google Books link), Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 172-73, (ISBN 0195335791), (ISBN 9780195335798).
- "HLS HLS Walking Tour: Harkness Graduate Center". Law.harvard.edu. 2005-02-15. Retrieved 2010-07-29.
- Art in Detroit Public Places, Revised Edition by Dennis Alan Nawrocki, p. 142: https://books.google.com/books?id=KOYuiMmTVW8C&pg=PA142&sig=T1_O7TH1mL5IGeR291x68g79BJ4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjp9eOe0_TSAhWJ6IMKHYJ2CXIQ6AEISTAI#v=onepage&q&f=false
External links
- Lippold in the Columbia Encyclopedia
- Marika Herskovic, New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists, (New York School Press, 2000.) ISBN 0-9677994-0-6
- The 1959 Chateau Mouton Rothschild Label by: Richard Lippold
- Richard Lippold "Shapes of the New Sculpture" The Baltimore Museum of Art: Baltimore, Maryland, 1964 Accessed June 26, 2012
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