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Marta Pan

Hungarian–born French sculptor (1923–2008)

Marta Pan
Marta Pan discussing her work, 1995
Born	(1923-06-12)12 June 1923 Budapest, Hungary
Died	12 October 2008(2008-10-12) (aged 85) Paris, France
Nationality	French
Known for	Sculpture

Marta Pan (12 June 1923, Budapest – 12 October 2008, Paris) was a French abstract sculptor of Hungarian origin.

Early life

Marta Pan was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1923.^[1] She studied art at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Budapest.^[1]

Work

Pan's sculptures are highly concerned with balance, symmetry, and geometry.^[1] She often created her works so that they were site-specific and worked with the surrounding environment.^[1] In 1946 Pan moved to Paris, where she met Constantin Brâncuşi and Fernand Léger.^[1] In 1952 she married André Wogenscky, who was a studio assistant to Le Corbusier.^[1] Her early sculptures were highly influenced by the architecture of Le Corbusier.^[1] In 1956, Pan created Le Teck, which consisted of two moveable parts.^[1] The choreographer Maurice Béjart later created a ballet, also entitled Le Teck, inspired directly by Pan's sculpture.^[1] Béjart's ballet was premiered on the roof of Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation building in Marseille, France.^[1] Until 1960, all of Pan's sculptures consisted of this two-part construction method, which allowed one piece to be moved, thus altering the work.^[2] In 1990 she made Celle floating sculpture in Italy for the Gori collection - Fattoria di Celle.^[3]

Death

Pan died on 12 October 2008 in Paris, France.^[1]

Public collections

Pan's work can be seen in a number of public institutions and locations, including:

Floating Sculpture (1973), Dallas City Hall, Dallas (Texas), USA^[4]
Sculpture flottante, Otterlo (1960), Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands^[5]
La Perspective (1992), Musée de la Ville de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (Yvelines, Île-de-France), France^[6]
Floating Sculpture No. 3 (1972), Lynden Sculpture Garden, Milwaukee (Wisconsin), USA^[7]
Signe infini (1993), intersection of autoroutes A46 and A6 at Ambérieux (Rhône, Rhône-Alpes), France.
Celle Floating Sculpture (1990), Collezione Gori Fattoria di Celle - Collezione Gori, Italy

Recognition

In 2001 Pan was awarded the prestigious Praemium Imperiale award for Sculpture from the Japan Art Society.^[1]

Selected works

Amphitheatre
Floating sculpture
Floating sculpture

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l "Marta Pan". Praemium Imperiale. 2001. Archived from the original on 30 September 2022. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
^ "Pan - Artists - Collection Societe Generale", Société Générale, Retrieved 12 November 2014.
^ "Fattoria di Celle - Collezione Gori".
^ "Public ArtWalk Dallas" Archived 2014-11-13 at archive.today, Public ArtWalk Dallas, Retrieved 13 November 2014.
^ "Sculpture Flottante - Otterlo" Archived 2014-11-28 at the Wayback Machine, Kröller Müller Museum, Retrieved 13 November 2014.
^ "Marta Pan" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, Saint Quentin en Yvelines, Retrieved 13 November 2014.
^ "Floating Sculpture no. 3", Lynden Sculpture Garden, Retrieved 23 November 2014.