Dorothea Tanning ist gestorben

Die 1910 in Galesburg, Illinois, geborene US-amerikanische Malerin, Bildhauerin und Schriftstellerin Dorothea Tanning (Bild) starb am 31. Januar 2012 in New York City. Sie hatte ebenfalls Bühnenausstattungen und Kostüme für Ballett und Theater entworffen. Tanning war ab 1946 mit dem deutschen Künstler Max Ernst verheiratet gewesen und schuf wie dieser surrealistische Gemälde.

Photo: Dorothea Tanning, New York, 2001, http://www.dorotheatanning.org/

Pamela S. Johnson
Director, The Dorothea Tanning Foundation: 

«It is my sad duty to announce that Dorothea Tanning has passed away. She died peacefully in her home in New York City on January 31. She was 101 years old. 

Dorothea Tanning led a truly remarkable life, not because she lived so long but because she lived so fully. As a young woman, she pursued her dreams to become an artist, and now leaves behind a significant body of painting, sculpture, and works on paper created over the course of six decades. 

For 34 years, she shared a loving partnership with her husband, Max Ernst, first in the United States and later in France. After his death in 1976, she returned to New York and demonstrated that it is never to late to begin a new chapter in life. In her mid-seventies, she became more productive than ever in her studio, and in her mid-eighties launched a new and successful career as a writer and poet. 

She worked until her last days, publishing her second book of poems, Coming to That, in the fall of 2011.  

This website aims to serve as an introduction and tribute to Dorothea Tanning’s life and work. It is an ongoing project of The Dorothea Tanning Foundation, which is dedicated to preserving the artist’s legacy.»

Source:

http://www.dorotheatanning.org/

«Dorothea Tanning, the painter, poet and ballet-set designer who was an integral member of the European Surrealists during and after World War II, died yesterday at the age of 101.»

http://www.galleristny.com/2012/02/dorothea-tanning-surrealist-painter-and-poet-dies-at-101/

Mehr:

http://www.dorotheatanning.org/ 

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea_Tanning