SCULPTOR

Naum Gabo

1890 - 1977

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Naum Gabo (born Naum Neemia Pevsner; Russian: Наум Борисович Певзнер; Hebrew: נחום נחמיה פבזנר) (5 August [O.S. 24 July] 1890 – 23 August 1977) was an influential sculptor, theorist, and key figure in Russia's post-Revolution avant-garde and the subsequent development of twentieth-century sculpture. His work combined geometric abstraction with a dynamic organization of form in small reliefs and constructions, monumental public sculpture and pioneering kinetic works that assimilated new materials such as nylon, wire, lucite and semi-transparent materials, glass and metal. Responding to the scientific and political revolutions of his age, Gabo led an eventful and peripatetic life, moving to Berlin, Paris, Oslo, Moscow, London, and finally the United States, and within the circles of the major avant-garde movements of the day, including Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, the Bauhaus, de Stijl and the Abstraction-Création group. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Naum Gabo has received more than 313,136 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Naum Gabo is the 46th most popular sculptor (down from 35th in 2019), the 432nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 346th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Sculptor.

Naum Gabo was a Russian sculptor and painter. Naum Gabo is most famous for his sculpture, "The Table," which is a three-dimensional form in space.

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Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Naum Gabo ranks 46 out of 258. Before him are Józef Gosławski, César Manrique, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Alcamenes, Veit Stoss, and Claes Oldenburg. After him are Tilman Riemenschneider, François Rude, Chares of Lindos, Eduardo Chillida, Vera Mukhina, and Étienne Maurice Falconet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Naum Gabo ranks 50. Before him are Vannevar Bush, Habibullāh Kalakāni, Viktor Lutze, Moša Pijade, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia, and Li Zongren. After him are Adolf Schärf, Rose Kennedy, Andriy Melnyk, Victor Serge, Prince Joachim of Prussia, and Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov. Among people deceased in 1977, Naum Gabo ranks 43. Before him are Steve Biko, Francis Gary Powers, Gangubai Kothewali, Alia Al-Hussein, Olave Baden-Powell, and Oskar Morgenstern. After him are Modibo Keïta, Kamal Jumblatt, Lee Miller, Sepp Herberger, Stephen Boyd, and Jan Patočka.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Naum Gabo ranks 432 out of 3,761. Before him are Şehsuvar Sultan (1682), Igor Smirnov (1941), Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817), Daniil Kharms (1905), Alexander Ostrovsky (1823), and Ivan Ilyin (1883). After him are Andre Geim (1958), Dmitry Pavlov (1897), Yury Luzhkov (1936), Princess Louise of Prussia (1808), P. D. Ouspensky (1878), and Lydia Litvyak (1921).

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Among SCULPTORS In Russia

Among sculptors born in Russia, Naum Gabo ranks 1. After him are Konstantin Somov (1869), Katarzyna Kobro (1898), Ernst Neizvestny (1925), Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg (1805), Anna Golubkina (1864), Mikhail Anikushin (1917), and Walter W. Winans (1852).

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