Louise Bourgeois
(Paris 1911 - 2010 New York)
ohne Titel
aus "Ode à ma Mère" (Blatt 1)
Radierung 1995
30 x 29,9 cm, Pr. 25,1 x 10,2 cm
sign. num. dat.
Auflage 170 Exemplare
MoMA 4b/III
[26783]
Louise Bourgeois
(Paris 1911 - 2010 New York)
ohne Titel
aus "Ode à ma Mère" (Blatt 1)
Radierung 1995
30 x 29,9 cm, Pr. 25,1 x 10,2 cm
sign. num. dat.
Auflage 170 Exemplare
MoMA 4b/III
[26783]
Louise Bourgeois
(Paris 1911 - 2010 New York)
ohne Titel
aus "Ode à ma Mère" (Blatt 2)
Radierung 1995
30,2 x 29,7 cm, Pr. 11,9 x 24,3 cm
sign. num. dat.
Auflage 170 Exemplare
MoMA 5b/IV
[26784]
Louise Bourgeois
(Paris 1911 - 2010 New York)
ohne Titel
aus "Ode à ma Mère" (Blatt 3)
Radierung 1995
30,1 x 30,5 cm, Pr. 21,7 x 15,9 cm
sign. num. dat.
Auflage 170 Exemplare
MoMA 6b/III
[26785]
Louise Bourgeois
(Paris 1911 - 2010 New York)
ohne Titel
aus "Ode à ma Mère" (Blatt 4)
Radierung 1995
30 x 29,7 cm, Pr. 17,5 x 12,6 cm
sign. num. dat.
Auflage 170 Exemplare
MoMA 7b/III
[26786]
Louise Bourgeois
(Paris 1911 - 2010 New York)
ohne Titel
aus "Ode à ma Mère" (Blatt 5)
Radierung 1995
30,1 x 30,2 cm, Pr. 21,7 x 15,9 cm
sign. num. dat.
Auflage 170 Exemplare
MoMA 8b/II
[26787]
Louise Bourgeois
(Paris 1911 - 2010 New York)
ohne Titel
aus "Ode à ma Mère" (Blatt 6)
Radierung 1995
30 x 29,8 cm, Pr. 22,6 x 22,8 cm
sign. num. dat.
Auflage 170 Exemplare
MoMA 9b/II
[26788]
Louise Bourgeois
(Paris 1911 - 2010 New York)
ohne Titel
aus "Ode à ma Mère" (Blatt 7)
Radierung 1995
30 x 30,2 cm, Pr. 21,6 x 15,9 cm
sign. num.
Auflage 170 Exemplare
MoMA 10b
[26789]
Louise Bourgeois
(Paris 1911 - 2010 New York)
ohne Titel
aus "Ode à ma Mère" (Blatt 8)
Radierung 1995
29,8 x 30 cm, Pr. 24 x 18,8 cm
sign. num. dat.
Auflage 170 Exemplare
MoMA 11b/II
[26790]
Louise Bourgeois
(Paris 1911 - 2010 New York)
ohne Titel
aus "Ode à ma Mère" (Blatt 9)
Radierung 1995
29,8 x 30 cm, Pr. 10,1 x 25 cm
sign. num. dat.
Auflage 170 Exemplare
MoMA 12b/II
[26791]
Louise Bourgeois
(Paris 1911 - 2010 New York)
"Eight in Bed"
(Acht im Bett)
Farblithographie mit Prägedruck, Zustand 3 von 3 2000
52,4 x 59,8 cm, Abb. 35,6 x 43 cm
sign. num.
Auflage 61 Exemplare
MoMA Kat. 224.3
[23827]
Louise Bourgeois
(Paris 1911 - 2010 New York)
"Couples"
Farblithographie, mit goldener Acrylfarbe von Hand übergangen 2001
113 x 66 cm
sign. num.
Auflage 210 Exemplare
MoMA 547.2
[22566]
Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911. She lived through a traumatic childhood with a dominant father who paid little attention to her and humiliated her mother through years of a relationship with a young Englishwoman in their own home. Her father ran a restoration workshop for carpets in which her mother also worked. Her mother, who worked on the carpets with threads, is connected to the motif of the spider, a recurring central theme in Bourgeoiss pictures and sculptures. According to Bourgeois, the spider symbolises the maternal, the protective.
Louise Bourgeois initially studied mathematics at the Sorbonne in Paris before turning to fine art at various academies in Paris. She became a pupil of Fernand Léger, who encouraged her to work as a sculptor.
In 1938, she emigrated with her husband, the art historian Robert Goldwater, to New York, where she lived until her death.
Louise Bourgeoiss works find their roots in her own childhood, which was marked by her difficult relationship with her father and the benevolence of her mother. The installation The Destruction of the Father and countless works with the motif of the spider, such as, for example, the gigantic, metre-high spider figures, the Mamans, were born out of this.
Bourgeois received numerous honours, awards and prizes, and The Museum of Modern Art in New York dedicated a retrospective to her.
The work of Louise Bourgeois, who worked with unusual materials such as latex, wax, and cement, but also with wood, bronze and marble, comprises sculptures, numerous prints, installations and the spatial cell works, enclosed spaces often made of wire mesh.
Louise Bourgeois is one of the most important women artists of our time.
In 2010, she died in New York City at the age of ninety-eight.