Hugo Edmond Weber was a Swiss-born, American artist and arts educator.
12 Facts About Hugo Weber
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Hugo Weber worked mainly in painting but was known to work in bronze for sculpture.
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Hugo Weber was born in Basel, Switzerland in 4 May 1918.
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Hugo Weber studied painting at the University of Basel, studying with artist Ernst Suter.
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Hugo Weber moved to Paris, France by 1939 and was studying art with sculptor Marcel Gimond.
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Hugo Weber worked collaboratively with Emerson Woelffer from IIT, in designing the Chicago-based Jazz Ltd.
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From 1955 until 1960, Hugo Weber lived in Paris, then moved to New York City.
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Hugo Weber was a gestural artist, but he was not rooted from American Action Painting like many of the others of the New York School of American Abstract Expressionism but rather from the European "style informel".
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Hugo Weber created two films highlighting his process as an artist, Vision in Flux, and Process Documentation by the Painter.
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In February and March of 1964, Hugo Weber created lithographs at Tamarind Institute with master printer Irwin Hollander.
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Hugo Weber died 15 August 1971 at the age 53, in New York City after a short illness.
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Hugo Weber's work is in various public art collections including Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Gallery of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, and others.