1. Gertrud Louise Goldschmidt, known as Gego, was a modern German-Venezuelan visual artist.
16 Facts About Gego
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Gego is perhaps best known for her geometric and kinetic sculptures made in the 1960s and 1970s, which she described as "drawings without paper".
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Gertrud Louise Goldschmidt, who went by "Gego", was born on 1 August 1912 in Hamburg, Germany into a Jewish family.
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Gego was the sixth of seven children of Eduard Martin Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Hanne Adeline Dehn.
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Gego found work in 1939 in Venezuela as an architect and gained Venezuelan citizenship in 1952.
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Gego described, in detail, her education history and her departure from Germany.
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Gego taught "Bidimensional and Three-Dimensional Form" and "Spatial Solutions" and published two articles between 1971 and 1977.
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Gego knew that, after a time of crisis, students become the members of society that are the most influential.
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Gego was aware of the modern movement when she came to Caracas, but she did not want to simply co-opt the ideas of Kinetic Art, Constructivism or Geometric Abstraction.
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From Kinetic Art, Gego incorporated motion as well as the importance of experimentation and the spectator.
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Gego considered space as its own form; as if her artwork was occupying the artwork of the room itself.
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In 1940 Gego met Venezuelan urban planner Ernst Gunz at the architectural firm where she worked with other architects to design the Los Caobos housing estate for Luis Roche.
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Gego closed Gunz in 1944 in order to spend more time with her children.
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That same year, her family founded the Fundacion Gego to preserve her artistic legacy; it organizes posthumous exhibitions of her artwork and promotes awareness of Gego's significance to the art world.
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The Fundacion Gego gave the permission to publish Gego's personal writings and testimonies in 2005.
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Gego's work was included in the 2021 exhibition Women in Abstraction at the Centre Pompidou.