Louise Bourgeois

Quick Facts

Full Name	Louise Bourgeois
Occupation	Sculptor
Date Of Birth	Dec 25, 1911(1911-12-25)
Age	113
Date Of Death	2010-05-31
Birthplace	Paris
Country	France
Birth City	Île-de-France
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Louise Bourgeois Biography

Louise Bourgeois is one of the most popular and richest Sculptor who was born on December 25, 1911 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. Artist and sculptor from France who is well-known for her spider-like sculptures like Maman.

She was inspired by She was inspired by Pablo Picasso..

She was the mother of three children, and she was married to Robert Goldwater.

Louise Bourgeois Net Worth

Louise Bourgeois is one of the richest Sculptor from France. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Louise Bourgeois 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She was a member of the Art Students League of New York where she created some of her sculptures.

Together with Willem De Kooning, she was part of American Abstract Artists Group.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Louise Bourgeois Dating?

According to our records, Louise Bourgeois married to Robert Goldwater (m. 1937–1973). As of December 1, 2023, Louise Bourgeois’s is not dating anyone.

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Facts & Trivia

Louise Ranked on the list of most popular Sculptor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in France. Louise Bourgeois celebrates birthday on December 25 of every year.

Top Facts about Louise Bourgeois

1. Louise Bourgeois was a French-American artist born in 1911.
2. She is best known for her sculptures and installations.
3. Bourgeois’ work often explored themes of sexuality, family, and trauma.
4. Her most famous sculpture is “Maman,” a giant spider.
5. Bourgeois was the first woman to have a retrospective at the MoMA in New York City.
6. She continued to create art until her death in 2010 at age 98.
7. Bourgeois’ work has been exhibited all over the world, including at the Venice Biennale and Documenta in Kassel, Germany.
8. She studied with artists such as Fernand Léger and Joan Miró.
9. Bourgeois was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Clinton in 1997.
10. Her artwork has sold for millions of dollars at auction houses like Christie’s and Sotheby’s.

Why is Louise Bourgeois important?

With a career spanning eight decades from the 1930s until 2010, Louise Bourgeois is one of the great figures of modern and contemporary art. She is best known for her large-scale sculptures and installations that are inspired by her own memories and experiences.

Is Louise Bourgeois really Freud's daughter?

Louise Bourgeois, Freud’s Daughter Perhaps more than any other artist of the twentieth century, Louise Bourgeois (1911 – 2010) produced a body of work that consistently and profoundly engaged with psychoanalytic theory and practice.

Was Louise Bourgeois rich?

Bourgeois by name, bourgeois in fact: the family was well-off, but not wealthy. Louis and Joséphine restored medieval and renaissance tapestries at their workshop in the southern suburb of Choisy-le-Roi, and sold them from their gallery in the centre of Paris.

Why did Louise Bourgeois like spiders?

Perhaps influenced in part by her early years at the tapestry restoration business, Bourgeois once explained that she chose the spider as a subject because its traits reminded her of her mother.

Why do critics dislike Louise Bourgeois?

Critics have called her art the product of “inner necessity” and a “Sisyphean effort to work through psychic material that is not ordinarily worked through successfully in art.” She has explored the same themes in a number of different mediums and has stated that “If we are very, very compulsive, all we have at our …