With its proximity to the cultural hub of New York City and its quieter suburban and rural landscapes, Connecticut was fertile ground for artists and writers in the period of Modernist movements between 1913 and 1979. Many of these cultural figures are well known through biographical and critical studies. Creative Places seeks to show how place played a significant role in creative work, and how in turn the artists and writers influenced communities in Connecticut.
Nena de Brennecke
Sculpture
1883 – unkn
- Biography/Description of Work
De Brennecke was born in Argentina, and studied art in England and with Henri Matisse in France. She had immigrated to the US by the 1920s. She created relief sculptures in bronze, terra cotta and wood. In the 1930s she was in Brooklyn and subsequently completed several WPA post office carved wood relief commissions, including “Stringing, Transplanting and Harvesting” for the Windsor post office in 1943.
- Sources view
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nena_de_Brennecke
- Associated Resource(s)
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