Bettina Scholl-Sabbatini (born 1942) is a Luxembourg sculptor, painter and ceramist. [1] As a result of her participation in Soroptimist International Europa, where she served as vice-president from 2003 to 2005, she fostered an increasingly close relationship with Rwanda, where she has coordinated development projects following the Tutsi genocide. [2] Her visits have also inspired her artistic designs. As a result, Rwanda exhibited her works at the 2010 Venice Biennale of Architecture. [3]
Born in Esch-sur-Alzette on 19 December 1942, Bettina Sabbatini was the daughter of the sculptor Aurelio Sabbatini (1909–1987). [4] She studied ceramic art and sculpture at the Istituto Statale d’Arte di Sesto Fiorentino in Florence, Italy, (1963–1967) and at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris where she studied under Jérome and Brayer. She works with bronze, stone and loam and also paints. [4] She has created works for public spaces and for many churches and chapels, including those in the Luxembourg localities of Bascharage, Bertrange, Dudelange, Lellig and Merl. Her work has been exhibited in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Sénégal and Spain. [1] [5]
Ossip Zadkine was a Russian-French artist of the School of Paris. He is best known as a sculptor, but also produced paintings and lithographs.
Sylvia Daoust, CM, CQ, RCA, born in Montreal, was one of the first female sculptors in Quebec. She studied at the Council of Arts & Manufactures and the École des Beaux-Arts, with Charles Maillard and Maurice Feliz, and later with Edwin Holgate at the Art Association of Montreal.
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Théo Kerg was a Luxembourgian painter and sculptor who specialized in modern art.
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Simone Decker is a Luxembourg artist who works mainly with photography and installations. In 1999, her photographic series Chewing and folding in Venice depicting huge chewing gum sculptures in the streets of Venice, was one of Luxembourg's contributions to the 48th Venice Biennale. Her sculptural works have included the exhibit Ghosts (2004) which consisted of seven yellow figures on the roof of the Casino Luxembourg art gallery.
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Pomona Zipser is a Romanian-born contemporary artist based in Berlin, known for her sculptures. She was born in 1958 in Romania and moved to Germany with her mother in 1970. Zipser studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and the Berlin University of the Arts.
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