Katarzyna Kobro: Progressive pioneer in constructivism

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For the 124th birthday
Katarzyna Kobro: Progressive pioneer in constructivism

The exhibition “The Other Side of the Moon” showed Katarzyna Kobro’s works in 2011 at the Kunstforum NRW in Düsseldorf

© Victoria Bonn-Meuser / Picture Alliance

Hardly any artist stands more for the entry of science into art than Katarzyna Kobro. The Polish sculptor always reinterpreted her works and made them accessible to a wide audience. Kobro would have been 124 years old on Wednesday.

The Polish sculptor and art theorist Katarzyna Kobro would have celebrated her 124th birthday today, Wednesday. Due to her progressive attitude and pioneering role in the Polish avant-garde, the Moscow-born artist is still regarded by many as a role model.

Katarzyna Kobro promoted science in art

Kobro was born in Moscow in 1898. She grew up in a multicultural family and was interested in art and science at an early age. In 1917 she began her studies at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.

Katarzyna Kobro always wanted to reinterpret art and present it to an everyday audience through mass production. She thus represented an attitude known as the Polish avant-garde. In 1936 she signed the Paris “Manifeste Dimensioniste”, which was intended to promote the integration of scientific advances in art.

Kobro’s most famous works include her first sculpture “Tos 75 – Structure” – a fusion of metal, wood, glass and cork – and the sculpture series “Kompozycja Przestrzenna”. However, her area of ​​expertise lay in the constructivist conception of space. The style of Russian Modernism places geometry and basic forms in the foreground. People, animals, landscapes or objects, on the other hand, cannot be seen.

With her husband Władysław Strzemiński she wrote the philosophical work “Composition of Space: Calculations of Space-Time Rhythm”. The couple married in 1920. Their daughter Jakobina Strzemińska was born 16 years later.

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Great interest after her death

Katarzyna Kobro died in February 1951 in Lodz, Poland. After the end of the Second World War, she was no longer able to achieve great success as an artist. Only after her death did art historians begin to restore Kobro’s works.

The renewed interest in their influence on the social and artistic circumstances of their time continues to this day. The famous Museum of Modern Art in New York is currently showing many of Kobro’s works in its “Collection 1940s-1970s” exhibition. German art lovers were able to admire some of their works in the Kunsthaus Stuttgart.

Source:Augsburg General

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