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Ibram Lassaw
American sculptor and abstract artist
Ibram Lassaw (May 4, 1913 – December 30, 2003) was a Russian-Americansculptor, known for non-objective construction in brazed metals.
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Biography
Lassaw was born in Alexandria, Egypt, of Russian émigré parents, he went to the U.S. in 1921. His family settled in Brooklyn, New York. He became a US citizen in 1928. He first studied sculpture in 1926 at the Clay Club and later at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York.
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He made abstract paintings and drawings influenced by Kandinsky, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, and other artists. He also attended the City College of New York.[1]
Influenced by his study of art history and readings in European art magazines, Lassaw began to make sculpture in the late 1920s.
He was among the "small group of artists committed themselves to abstract art during the 1930s."[2] In his work, Ibram Lassaw "replaced the monolithic solidity of cast metal with open-space constructions ob