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Gego

LC control no.n 2002012870
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Personal name headingGego
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Variant(s)Goldschmidt, Gertrud Luise
Goldschmidt, Gertrud Louise
Associated countryGermany Venezuela
Birth date19120801
Death date19940917
Place of birthHamburg (Germany)
Place of deathCaracas (Venezuela)
Field of activityModernism (Art)--Venezuela
AffiliationUniversität Stuttgart
Profession or occupationArtists Architects
Found inGego. Gego, 1955-1990, 2000: t.p. (Gego) p. 107, etc. (b. in Hamburg, Germany, 1912; d. 1994; orig. full name, Gertrud Luise Goldschmidt; artist, moved to Venezuela))
LC data base, 05-31-02 (hdg.: Gego)
Untangling the Web, 2012: CIP t.p. (Gego)
Oxford art online, Aug. 17, 2012 (Gego (Goldschmidt, Gertrudis); b Hamburg, 1 Aug 1912; d Caracas, 17 Sept 1994; Venezuelan architect, sculptor, draughtsman and printmaker)
Gego, 2023, ©2023: title page (Gego) page 11 (descendant of the historic German Jewish Goldschmidt family from Frankfurt, was born Gertrud Goldschmidt in Hamburg in 1912, earned architecture and engineering degree from the Technische Hochschule Stuttgart (now Universität Stuttgart) in 1938, immigrated to Venezuela in 1939, worked as freelance architect after World War II in Caracas, she produced her first prints and drawings in the early 1950s, she died Caracas in 1994)
Wikipedia WWW site, July 19, 2023: (Gertrud Louise Goldschmidt, 1 August 1912 to 17 September 1994, known as Gego, was a modern Venezuelan visual artist, best known for her geometric and kinetic sculptures made in the 1960s and 1970s)
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