Louise Nevelson (September 23, 1899 – April 17, 1988) was an American naturalized Ukrainian sculptor. He moved to the USA since 1905, studied with K. H. Miller at Art students league and Hans Hofmann in Munich in 1931. He was Diego Rivera's assistant at the mural in New York Workers School (1932).
He then devoted himself exclusively to sculpture, first in terracotta (inspired by pre-Columbian art, later also to archaeological studies in Mexico and Central America), and then moved almost exclusively to wood and then also, since 1968, to plexiglass and steel.
It applied to monumental sculpture and assemblages, often using fragments of other artifacts (fashioned pieces, legs of chairs and tables, balustrades, columns), elaborating a poetic that oscillates between abstractism and surrealism.
Considered among the most significant exponents of the post-war period, she received important awards and commissions, including Transparent Horizon (1975) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bicentennial Dawn (1976) at the Philadelphia Courthouse.
