Louise Bourgeois
25 December 1911 – 31 May 2010
Louise Bourgeois was a French-American artist best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, including her monumental spider sculptures titled 'Maman'. Her work explored themes of family, memory, the body, and the unconscious, drawing on her own childhood. Though she worked for decades, she achieved widespread international recognition late in her long life.
Lived at the same time
Well-documented people whose lives overlapped with Louise Bourgeois.
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- Vo Nguyen Giap (1911–2013) Overlapped 99 years →
- Qian Xuesen (1911–2009) Overlapped 98 years →
- Dorothy Vaughan (1910–2008) Overlapped 97 years →
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Life events
Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris to a family that ran a tapestry restoration business.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe studied mathematics and then art at institutions including the École des Beaux-Arts and various academies in Paris.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe married the American art historian Robert Goldwater and emigrated to the United States.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgBourgeois presented her early wooden 'Personnages' sculptures in a New York solo show.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgMoMA held a retrospective of her work, the first the museum devoted to a woman sculptor.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe received the National Medal of Arts from the United States government.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe produced her monumental steel and bronze spider sculpture, one of her most iconic works.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgBourgeois created the first commissioned installation, including a giant spider, for the opening of Tate Modern.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgBourgeois died of a heart attack in Manhattan at the age of 98.
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