Horace Clifford Westermann (1922 - 1981)

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Horace Clifford Westermann

Horace Clifford (Cliff) Westermann was an American sculptor and printmaker. His sculptures frequently incorporated traditional carpentry and marquetry techniques. From the late 1950s until his death in 1981, Westermann worked with a number of materials and formal devices to address a range of personal, literary, artistic, and pop-cultural references. The artist's sculptural oeuvre is distinguished by its intricate craftsmanship, in which wood, metal, glass, and other materials are laboriously hand-tooled, and by its ability to convey an offbeat, often humorous, individualistic sensibility.

Westermann's sculptures reveal not only the influence of craft traditions, but also of varied art historical precedents. The artist's ability to convey subtle and uncanny effects through the presentation of seemingly simple objects has often led critics to compare his work to that of Surrealist-inspired artists such as Joseph Cornell. However, Westermann's work encompasses elements from a broad and diverse range of artistic practices, including Assemblage, Dada, and Folk Art. His sculptures, moreover, point to minimal and post-minimal art of the late 1960s and beyond, in terms of their rigorous craftsmanship, formal sophistication, unconventional use of materials, and sense of humor.

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Date and place of birt:11 december 1922, Los Angeles, USA
Date and place of death:3 november 1981, Danbury, USA
Nationality:USA
Period of activity: XX century
Specialization:Artist, Engraver, Graphic artist, Sculptor
Art style:Expressionism, Post War Art, Surrealism, Dadaism, Folk Art
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1940
Andrew Michael Dasburg (1887 - 1979)
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Lee Krasner (1908 - 1984)
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1908 - 1984
Todd Gray (1954)
Todd Gray
1954
Ming C. Lowe (1945)
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1945
Ed Moses (1926 - 2018)
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Earl Kerkam (1891 - 1965)
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1891 - 1965
Mikhail Osipovich Tsetlin (Amari) (1882 - 1945)
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Kent Holloway (1935 - 2004)
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1956
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Roy Schatt (1909 - 2002)
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Marilyn Bendell (1921 - 2003)
Marilyn Bendell
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Arne Besser (1935)
Arne Besser
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Trevor Paglen (1947)
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Yuriy Sobolev (1928 - 2002)
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Sergio Mazza (1931)
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Angelo Frattini (1910 - 1975)
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Gerhard Hoehme (1920 - 1989)
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Erdmut Bramke (1940 - 2002)
Erdmut Bramke
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Sergei Mikhailovich Orlov (1911 - 1971)
Sergei Mikhailovich Orlov
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Claudine Duqué (1926)
Claudine Duqué
1926
William Anastasi (1933 - 2023)
William Anastasi
1933 - 2023
Cornelia Gurlitt (1890 - 1919)
Cornelia Gurlitt
1890 - 1919
Gudrun Piper (1917 - 2016)
Gudrun Piper
1917 - 2016