15 Facts About Herbert Ferber

Herbert Ferber was an American painter and sculptor.

Herbert Ferber is an abstract expressionist and is considered a vital member of the New York School.

Herbert Ferber Silvers was born on April 30,1906, in New York City.

Herbert Ferber practiced dentistry and taught part-time at the Columbia Dental School during the 1930s; he continued to sculpt and practice dentistry up through the 1950s.

In 1940, Herbert Ferber changed his approach to sculpture from carving to gluing and doweling; he last worked in wood in 1944.

In 1945, Herbert Ferber began experimenting in steel-reinforced concrete, abstract sculpture, and metal-soldering.

In 1971, as guardian of Mark Rothko's daughter Kate, Herbert Ferber charged executors of the Mark Rothko estate of conspiring with the Marlborough Gallery to waste the estate's assets.

Herbert Ferber married Sonia Stirt in 1932, Ilse Falk in 1944, and Edith Popiel in 1967, a photographer.

Herbert Ferber died on August 20,1991, of cholangiocarcinoma at his summer home in Egremont, Massachusetts.

In 1978, Herbert Ferber appeared in Masters of Modern Sculpture, Part Three, by Michael Blackwood.

Mr Herbert Ferber was one of a small group of American sculptors who in the 1940s began to break with the traditional notion of sculpture as a solid, closed mass.

Herbert Ferber made open, airy forms that, as he put it, "pierced" space rather than displaced it, and he is credited with creating, in 1960, one of the first environmental sculptures intended for people to walk through.

Mr Herbert Ferber was an accomplished painter, his canvases taking the form of sculpturelike reliefs on which he painted abstract motifs.

Herbert Ferber's works have appeared the Metropolitan, the Modern, and Whitney museums in New York and in Europe.

Herbert Ferber's work appeared at group exhibitions at the San Francisco Golden Gate International Exposition, New York World's Fair, the US Pavilion at the World Fair in Brussels, and the Seattle World's Fair.