Richard Lippold (May 3, 1915 – August 22, 2002) was an American sculptor, known for his geometric constructions using wire as a medium.
Richard Lippold | |
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Died | August 22, 2002 | (aged 87)
Nationality | American |
Known for | Sculpture |
Lippold was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He studied at the University of Chicago, and graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in industrial design in 1937.[1] Lippold worked as an industrial designer from 1937 to 1941. After he became a sculptor, Lippold taught at several universities, including Hunter College at the City University of New York, from 1952 to 1967.
When describing Lippold's floor-to-ceiling sculpture "Trinity", the American artist Howard Newman said:
Lippold was an engineering genius, but we've been dealing with a piece that had reached the threshold of catastrophe,...People's mouths fall open when they see it going back up, like they're watching a spider spin a web of blazing gold,...The more that goes up, the more exquisite it gets.[2]
The 14th and 15th of John Cage's famous Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano are subtitled Gemini – after the work of Richard Lippold.
Not on view... Medium: Brass rods, nickel-chromium and stainless steel wire; Credit: Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund;
photographed by Walter Rosenblum
Medium: Gold-filled wire, 22 K.; Credit Line: Fletcher Fund, 1956;
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construction by Richard Lippold suspended from the ceiling of the Fairlane Town Center in suburban Dearborn was de-installed pending conservation
Original edition. Tan paper sheet printed on both sides and double folded as issued. Artwork, list of displayed works and Yeats quote. Lippold's first solo show...8.25 x 11 folded exhibition announcement for the exhibition from April 12 – May 8, 1948. Mr. Lippold first exhibited his sculpture in the group show Origins of Modern Sculpture at the City Art Museum in St. Louis in 1945 and had his first solo show in 1947 at the Willard Gallery in New York, where he continued to exhibit periodically until the early 1970's.
Bulletin of the City Art Museum of St. Louis was a publication on art and on the museum now known as the St. Louis Art Museum, published in the 20th century.
1946 DETROIT / SAINT LOUIS: Origins of Modern Sculpture (frenchsculpture.org, a project by Laure de Margerie, funded by the Nasher Sculpture Center, the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, the Musée d'Orsay, the Ecole du Louvre, and the Musée Rodin)