Abstract Bronze Sculpture On Pedestal By Leonardo Nierman 1932 - 2023

Abstract bronze sculpture on pedestal by Mexican artist Leonardo Nierman.. Sculpture is signed by the artist and numbered on base. Uneven patina to the finish. Highest point is approximately 9.5”h.

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Neirman held over 100 exhibitions in the Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe.
His work can be found in museums and public buildings in Australia, Austria, Colombia, Costa Rica, the United States, Spain, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Monaco, Panama, Sweden and Thailand. These include the gallery of the Vatican, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City, the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, The Art Modern Gallery of New York and Phoenix Art Museum.[11]
His monumental works can be found in many of Mexico's major cities and abroad.[12] In 1969 he painted a mural for the physics department at Princeton as well as designed the stained glass windows for Temple Beth Israel in Lomas de Chapultepec. His metal sculptures appear in places such as universities, concert halls, research centers, libraries, cultural centers, atriums and parks in countries such as Canada, the United States, Ecuador and Lithuania. These include the Flame of the Millennium commissioned by Howard C. Alper, which is at the Ohio Street interchange of the Kennedy Expressway in Chicago, Eternal Light at the Outpatient Care Center of the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago and Sensación de Vuelo at the Lambert-St. Louis International Airport.
In 1997 he created a limited edition postage stamp for the Mexican postal service.
Nierman received over sixty recognitions, half of them from outside Mexico. Recognitions including Honorific Mention at UNAM (1960), member of the Instituto de Artes in Mexico (1964), lifetime member of the Royal Society of the Arts in London (1965), Palme d'Or des Beaux Arts from Monaco (1969), Royce Medal (New York, 1970), League of Art Gold Medal (Chicago, 1980), Golden Centaur and honorary master's of painting from the Academy of Italy (1982), named European Academic by the Centro Studi Di Recerch L Accademia D Europa in Italy (1984) and the winner of the sculpture competition at the University of Central Florida (1988). In 1993, he became a patron of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in London. In 1995 he received an honorary doctorate from Concordia University in Irvine, California.] The city of Chicago named 19 December in his honor in 2002. In 2003 he received the Gloria Award from the International Latino Cultural Center in Chicago. In 2010 he received the Vasco de Quiroga Medal from the Mexico City government. UNAM named a classroom designed for cultural activities after the painter in 2011.

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approximately 9.5”h."

Fine Art, Sculpture

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