Nicolas Schöffer | i |
 
last name: Schöffer
first name: Nicolas
birthday: 1912
birth-place: Kalocsa (Hungary)
death date: 1992
Summary

Nicolas Schöffer was one of the truly innovative artists whose theoretical and practical influence on present day art is remarkable. Born in Hungary and active in Paris since 1936, he developed theories of spatiodynamism (1948), luminodynamism (1957), and chronodynamism(1959) which challenged earlier notions of static viewing of sculpture. From his first cybernetic sculpture CYSP 1 (1956) through

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Biography

Early Life Studies drawing, painting and piano starting at the age of 7. Secondary studies in the Jesuit College of Kalocsa. Graduates from the School of Fine Arts in Budapest (Hungary).
1932 Participates in the exhibition at Nemzeti Szalon (exhibition hall of the Society of Hungarian Artists and Patrons), Budapest.
1936 Studies at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (
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Illustrations
Comments
anonymous
posted about 9 years ago
The cybernetic tower of Liège have been completly renewed and will be inaugurated in the begining of may 2016
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