Liisi Beckmann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Liisi Beckmann

Finnish designer and artist

Date of Birth: 07-Dec-1924

Place of Birth: Leningrad Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 09-Aug-2004

Profession: artist, designer

Nationality: Finland

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Liisi Beckmann (7 December 1924 – 9 August 2004) was a Finnish designer and artist primarily active in Italy from the late 1950s to the late 1970s.
Examples of her work are held in the collections of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm and the Design Museum in Helsinki.
Her work has also been exhibited at the Rome Quadriennale, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, and the Triennale Design Museum in Milan.
Her most celebrated design was the Karelia chair, first produced by Zanotta in 1966.