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Jacqueline Stieger
Jacqueline A. N. Stieger (born 1936) is a British artist and sculptor who primarily works in cast metal, creating jewellery and medals as well as larger sculptures. She has executed architectural commissions for churches and chapels in the UK, France and Switzerland (some jointly with her husband, Alfred Gruber, who died in 1972). She is also known for her medals, both innovative art medals and conventional commemorative examples. Biography Stieger was born in 1936 in Wimbledon, London, Wimbledon, London, where her Swiss parents, Trudy and General Aircraft Monospar, Helmuth John ("Mudi") Stieger, were attending university. Her father was an aeronautical engineer who invented the monospar wing. She had a sister, Marion. The family soon moved to the East Riding of Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire, where her father headed R&D at Blackburn Aircraft in Brough, East Riding of Yorkshire, Brough. He later became vice-chair of Northern Dairies. She was educated at the Bedales boarding s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sculptor
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramic art, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since Modernism, there has been almost complete freedom of materials and process. A wide variety of materials may be worked by removal such as carving, assembled by welding or modelling, or Molding (process), moulded or Casting, cast. Sculpture in stone survives far better than works of art in perishable materials, and often represents the majority of the surviving works (other than pottery) from ancient cultures, though conversely traditions of sculpture in wood may have vanished almost entirely. In addition, most ancient sculpture was painted, which h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
