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Abakanowicz, Magdalena

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Personal name headingAbakanowicz, Magdalena
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Variant(s)Abakanovitchi, Magudarēna
Abakanowicz, Marta
LocatedWarsaw (Poland)
Birth date1930-06-20
Death date2017-04-20
Place of birthFalenty (Poland)
Place of deathWarsaw (Poland)
Field of activityArt Sculpture
Profession or occupationArtists Sculptors
Found inHer Wystawa gobelinów Magdaleny Abakanowicz, 1965.
Her Abakanovitchi ten, 1991: p. 16 (Magudarēna Abakanovitchi [reading in katakana])
Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1930)
Magdalena Abakanowicz, 2012: title page (Magdalena Abakanowicz) page 155 (artist; born 1930 in Falenty, Poland; lives and works in Warsaw)
New York times WWW site, viewed Apr. 24, 2017 (in obituary published Apr. 21: Magdalena Abakanowicz; b. Marta Abakanowicz, Falenty, southwest of Warsaw, June 20, 1930; d. Thursday [Apr. 20, 2017], Warsaw, aged 86; Polish sculptor who transformed sisal and burlap into brooding forms that evoked the weight of political oppression, the desperation of the individual, and the sufferings of the natural world)