| LC control no. | n 50033431 |
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| Personal name heading | Giedion-Welcker, Carola |
| Variant(s) | Welcker, Carola Giedion- Giedion-Welcker, C. (Carola) |
| Found in | Her Modern plastic art ... 1937. In Memoriam James Joyce, 1979, c1941: t.p. (C. Giedion-Welcker) Stark, T. Giedion-Welcker, Dr. Carola in Index of historic collectors and dealers of Cubism, viewed on 11 January 2019 (b. Cologne, 1893; d. Zurich, 1979; Carola Giedion-Welcker was a collector and historian of art and literature. She wrote one of the first serious studies of twentieth-century sculpture. Titled Modern Plastic Art (1937), the book stressed the central importance of Cubism for the development of modern art. Giedion-Welcker earned her doctorate in 1922 after studying with the eminent German art historian Heinrich Wölfflin. She would go on to produce several important works on modern culture, including the first monograph on the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi, a book on the painter Paul Klee, a study of the French poet Alfred Jarry, and an influential defense of James Joyce's Ulysses. Giedion-Welcker lived in Zurich with her husband, the architectural historian Sigfried Giedion. The couple were close friends with Hans Arp, Brancusi, Le Corbusier, Max Ernst, Joyce, and Kurt Schwitters. The majority of Giedion-Welcker's personal collection was acquired directly from artists, frequently in the form of gifts) <https://www.metmuseum.org/art/libraries-and-research-centers/leonard-lauder-research-center/programs-and-resources/index-of-cubist-art-collectors/giedion-welcker> |
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