Noemí Gerstein, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Noemí Gerstein

Argentine artist

Date of Birth: 10-Nov-1908

Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Date of Death: 14-Jun-1996

Profession: sculptor

Nationality: Argentina

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Noemí Gerstein (1910 – 1996) was an Argentine sculptor, illustrator and plastic artist. Gerstein was born in –and lived and worked in– Buenos Aires.
In 1934, she began training under Alfredo Bigatti In the 1950s, she received a government grant to travel to France, where she studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris under the tutelage of Ossip Zadkine.
In 1952, Gerstein was one of the winners of the Institute of Contemporary Arts' design competition for the Unknown Political Prisoner Monument.
Gerstein's works were predominantly abstract, and she "experimented with new materials." She had a preference for metallic constructions, such as Constellation (1963), which used small pieces of tubing.