Yuri Schwebler was active in the arts in the 1970s in Washington, DC, and most notably in February 1974, he transformed the Washington Monument into a sundial.
11 Facts About Yuri Schwebler
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Yuri Schwebler showed his work at the Jefferson Place Gallery.
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Yuri Schwebler was born on November 21,1942, in Feketic, Yugoslavia, and raised in West Germany.
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Yuri Schwebler graduated from Warner Junior High School and Seaford High School in Delaware.
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In 1965, Schwebler was drafted in to the United States Army Reserve.
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Yuri Schwebler moved to New York in 1980, and stopped making art around 1981.
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Yuri Schwebler died at age 47 on March 3,1990, in Marlborough, New York by suicide and carbon monoxide poisoning.
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Yuri Schwebler was survived by his partner, artist Enid Sanford, his mother Eva Schwebler, and two sisters.
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Yuri Schwebler's work was part of the posthumous retrospective art exhibition, Yuri Schwebler: The Spiritual Plan curated by John James Anderson at the American University Museum.
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Yuri Schwebler's work Drawing Table: Table Drawing, featured tools placed on a drawing table, and the surface of the drawing table has drawings of the same tools.
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In 1973, Yuri Schwebler showed a series of large glass pyramid sculptures at The Phillips Collection.