Sonia Sekula
Visual Artist
1918 –
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Who is Sonia Sekula?
Sonia Sekula was a Swiss-born artist linked with the abstract expressionist movement.
She was born in Lucerne on 8 April 1918 to a Swiss mother, Berta Huguenin, and a Hungarian father, Béla Sekula, a philatelist.
She lived in America from 1936 to 1955.
She attended Sarah Lawrence College.
She met the surrealists in exile in New York during 1942.
On 25 April 1963 because of her sexual orientation she hanged herself in her studio in Zurich.
She is buried in St. Moritz as she had requested in a letter to her mother.
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