Alexander Calder
Sculpture, Visual Artist
1898 – 1976
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Who was Alexander Calder?
Alexander Calder was an American sculptor known as the originator of the mobile, a type of kinetic sculpture made with delicately balanced or suspended components which move in response to motor power or air currents. Calder’s stationary sculptures are called stabiles. He also produced numerous wire figures, notably for a miniature circus.
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- Born
- Jul 22, 1898
Lawnton - Also known as
- Sandy Calder
- Parents
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Lowell High School
(1912 - 1915) - Bachelor's degree, Stevens Institute of Technology
Mechanical Engineering
(1915 - 1919) - Académie de la Grande Chaumière
- Art Students League of New York
(1923 - 1926) - Académie Julian
- Germantown Academy
- Lowell High School
- Lived in
- Connecticut
- Pennsylvania
- Lawnton
- Died
- Nov 11, 1976
New York
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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