Herbert Ferber
Sculpture, Award Winner
1906 – 1991
Who was Herbert Ferber?
Herbert Ferber was an American sculptor and painter, born in New York City. He began his independent artistic studies in New York in 1926 at evening classes at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, while attending Columbia University Dental School. In 1930, he attended the National Academy of Design, and that summer he was awarded a scholarship to work at The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation in Oyster Bay, New York. He also began part-time work as a dentist. Impressed by African sculpture, he purchased his first piece of African art in 1931. Ferber received his dentistry degree in 1930, and, until the 1950s, he maintained two careers, as Abstract expressionist sculptor and dentist.
Ferber's best-known sculptures are open, hollow forms in soldered and welded metal. While abstract, their titles and spiky forms often suggest forces in conflict.. By the mid-1950s, he began to create, what he called, roofed sculptures―some parts of which hung from the ceiling while other parts rose from the floor. These were followed by so-called cage works―large, boxy forms within which other forms were set.
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- Born
- Apr 30, 1906
New York City - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Beaux-Arts Institute of Design
- Dental degree, Columbia University
Dentistry
( - 1930)
- Lived in
- North Egremont
( - 1991/08/20)
- North Egremont
- Died
- Aug 20, 1991
North Egremont
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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