Ilse Getz specialized on three-dimensional works, made mostly with found objects.
11 Facts About Ilse Getz
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Ilse Getz exhibited at several galleries in New York City including the Bertha Schaefer Gallery and Rosenberg Gallery, as well as in Europe, namely in Switzerland, Germany, France and United Kingdom.
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In 1937 she married lawyer David Ilse Getz and settled in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
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In 1945 Ilse Getz worked as freelance artist and already had her first exhibition at the Norlyst Gallery in New York.
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From 1954 to 1959 Ilse Getz worked in various art galleries in New York.
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In 1958 Ilse Getz married her second husband, artist Manoucher Yektai.
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In 1962, Ilse Getz returned to New York City and maintained studio on the Upper East Side.
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Ilse Getz married in 1964 to Gibson Danes, Dean of Yale School of Art and Architecture.
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Later in life, Ilse Getz suffered from advanced Alzheimer's disease and Danes feared that he would no longer be able to properly care for his wife.
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In 1942 Ilse Getz created her first oil painting while visiting her sister in Mexico and by 1945 she had her first exhibition at the Norlyst Gallery in New York.
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Retrospective exhibitions of Ilse Getz's work were held at the Kunsthalle Nurnberg in 1978 and at the Goethe House, New York in 1980.