Antoine Pevsner

Antoine Pevsner (30 January [O.S. 18 January] 1886 – 12 April 1962) was a Russian-born sculptor and the older brother of Alexii Pevsner and Naum Gabo. Both Antoine and Naum are considered pioneers of twentieth-century sculpture.

"30 degree's dynamism", City University of Caracas

Biography
His work Column of Peace, on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is currently on display as part of Landmarks, the public art program of The University of Texas at Austin.

Pevsner was born in Oryol, Russian Empire,[1] into a Jewish family. Among the originators of and having coined the term, Constructivism, and pioneers of Kinetic Art, they discovered a new use for metals and welding and made a new marriage of art and mathematics. Pevsner said: "Art must be inspiration controlled by mathematics. I have a need for peace, symphony, orchestration."[2] Pevsner's studio was on the outskirts of Paris and housed his sculptures. He was one of the first to use the blowtorch in sculpture, welding copper rods onto sculptural forms[3] and along with his brother, Naum, he issued the Realist Manifesto in 1920.[4]

Pevsner died in Paris, age 76.

References
  1. "Antoine Pevsner". University of Chicago.
  2. Tate. "Antoine Pevsner 1884-1962 | Tate". Tate. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  3. The Artist in his Studio. 1960, Viking Press.
  4. "Antoine Pevsner | French artist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  • Antoine Pevsner in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website


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