Richard lippold biography
Richard lippold biography
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American sculptor Richard Lippold (1915-2002) was a renowned artist, responsible for some of the most important site-specific architectural sculptures created in the last half of the Twentieth Century.
His work is primarily composed of large, geometric and highly complex wire and sheet metal. He achieved startling effects in intricately arranged, precisely engineered constructions, exploring spatial relationships with the surrounding architecture.
Lippold’s reputation for collaborating with architects has won him high praise from major architects of his time such as Walter Gropius and Philip Johnson.
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Walter Gropius once said: "All my life I have tried to cooperate with painters and sculptors to create works to be at one with buildings; Lippold is the only one whose work comes to one with our buildings. The only one." (The New Yorker, March 30, 1963).
Richard Lippold was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on May 3, 1915.
From 1933 to 1937 he studied Industrial Design at the Universi