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 Seligmann, Kurt (1900 - 1962)
USA

Magnetic Mountain, 1949

Oil on canvas;
163.5 x 188.5 x 3.2 cm
Surrealism

UID 102-525



Biography

American painter, commercial designer, sculptor and writer born in Switzerland. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Geneva (1920) and at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence (1927). In 1929, Seligman moved to Paris, where he joined the Surrealists and became a member of the Abstraction-Création group. He was influenced by the work of Arp and Le Corbusier, who drove him to explore biomorphic imagery. Although he did not officially join the Surrealist movement until 1937, Seligman participated in a number of their exhibitions during the 30s. His themes are very suggestive, apparently based on mythology or taken from a purely magical sense of transformation. His interest in religion, in the history of the occult, in ethnology and anthropology were close to the intellectual concerns of Breton and other Surrealists, although the artist was always considered a little on the fringe of the movement. In 1939, he emigrated to the United States and took American citizenship. He met with other exiled European artists, particularly those associated with the Surrealist movement. His work became lighter and more elegant. He designed costumes for ballet and modern dance, showing a rather Surrealist interpretation of the arts and his own sympathy for literature and illustration.



Exhibitions

Painting in the United States
Carnegie Institute, USA
13-10-1949 ~ 11-12-1949

Kurt Seligmann, Basel Art 25 '94'
The Mayor Gallery, United Kingdom
14-06-1994 ~ 20-06-1994

El Surrealismo entre el Viejo y Nuevo Mundo
Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Spain
01-12-1988 ~ 28-02-1989

O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho
Palácio da Galeria, Câmara Municipal de Tavira, Portugal
12-07-2003 ~ 14-09-2003

O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho, Sintra
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal
04-07-2001 ~ 30-06-2001

Fernando Lemos and Surrealism - The Berardo Collection
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal
26-11-2005 ~ 18-06-2006

Fernando Lemos e o Surrealismo - Colecção Berardo
Centro das Artes Casa das Mudas, Calheta, Madeira, Portugal
08-07-2006 ~ 31-01-2007

Berardo Museum Opening
Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal
25-06-2007 ~ 24-08-2008


Bibliography

Basel Art 25 '94 Kurt Seligmann, 1994
Published by The Mayor Gallery

Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000
Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém
ISBN 972817652X

Collection Berardo, Oeuvres Choisies du 20e Siècle, 2001
Published by Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon
ISBN 2711843319

Fernando Lemos and Surrealism , 2005
Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo

Fernando Lemos e o Surrealismo – Colecção Berardo, 2006
Published by Centro das Artes - Casa das Mudas
ISBN 9728902034

O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho, 2003
Published by Palácio da Galeria, Câmara Municipal de Tavira
ISBN 9728705050

O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho, 2001
Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo
ISBN 9729742847

Painting in the United States, 1949
Published by Carnegie Institute







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