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Sonia Delaunay 1885-1979
Sonia Delaunay was born Sarah Ilinitchna Stern in 1885 in Gradizhsk, Russia (now Ukraine) and was adopted bygd her maternal uncle at the age of fem, taking his name (Terk). She grew up in St. Petersburg exposed to music and art, and learned several foreign languages. She moved to Germany to study drawing in 1903 and two years later settled in Paris, France, studying at the Académie dem la Palette, and discovering the work of Cézanne, Van Gogh, Pierre Bonnard, and Edouard Vuillard, as well as Matisse and Derain. In 1908 she married the German collector and art dealer, Wilhelm Uhde (1874–1947), whose Montparnasse Galerie Notre-Dame des Champs showed her first solo exhibition. Through Uhde, she encountered many painters including Picasso, Georges Braque, Maurice de Vlaminck, and Robert Delaunay (1885–1941), and in 1910, after the couple divorced bygd mutual consent, Sonia married Delaunay, with whom she had a son in 1911.
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Sonia Delaunay 1885-1979
Sonia Delaunay was born in 1885 in Gradizhsk, Russia (now Ukraine) and was adopted by her maternal uncle at the age of five, taking his name (Terk). She grew up in St. Petersburg exposed to music and art, and learned several foreign languages. She moved to Germany to study drawing in 1903. In 1905, she travelled to Paris, studying at the Académie de la Palette, and discovering the work of Cézanne, Van Gogh, Pierre Bonnard, and Edouard Vuillard, as well as Matisse and Derain. In 1908 she married the German collector and art dealer, Wilhelm Uhde (1874–1947), whose Montparnasse Galerie Notre-Dame des Champs showed her first solo exhibition. Through Uhde, Sonia encountered many painters, including Picasso, Georges Braque, Maurice de Vlaminck, and Robert Delaunay (1885–1941). In 1910, Sonia divorced Uhde by mutual agreement and married Delaunay with whom she had a son in 1911. Together Sonia and Robert Delaunay pursued the use of a
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Sonia Delaunay
Delaunay’s abstract compositions were directly inspired by the traditional quilts she saw during her childhood in Russia. Both prolific and innovative, she also extended her artistic talents to fashion, interior design, graphics, collage, book illustration and binding, and other decorative arts.
Sonia Delaunay was born Sarah Stern (nicknamed Sonia) in Ukraine, where her father was a factory worker. At five, she went to live with a wealthy uncle in St. Petersburg and took his surname, Terk. She studied art in Karlsruhe, Germany, and beginning in 1905, in Paris, where she spent most of the rest of her life.
In 1910, she married the French painter Robert Delaunay, with whom she had a son. Together, husband and wife developed Orphism, also called Simultaneism, an artistic style that prized color over form. Like Cubism, Delaunay’s imagery is abstracted. Yet, unlike the largely monochrome Cubist art of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, Delaunay’s works consist of bright