Pedro Friedeberg

(Mexican, born 1936)

Pedro Friedeberg is a contemporary Mexican artist best known for his Surrealist sculptures and prints. His eclectic body of work bridges architectural imagery and psychedelic patterns with occult iconography. In one of his most famous works, Hand Chair (1961), the artist melds practical furniture design into the shape of a giant hand. Born Pietro Enrico Hoffman Landsberg on January 11, 1936 in Florence, Italy to German-Jewish immigrants escaping the Holocaust, he and his family moved to Mexico when Friedeberg was 3 years old. Influenced by the books of Renaissance and Gothic architecture he saw as a child, Friedeberg studied to become an architect at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. In 1960, he dropped out of architecture school and turned his focus to painting and designing. It was around this time that he fell into the artistic circles of Surrealists and Neo-Dadaists, including Remedios Varo, Mathias Goeritz, and Leonora Carrington. Friedeberg's strange compositions and eccentric attitude has earned him international recognition. Today, the artist’s works are held among the collections of the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., and The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Friedeberg currently lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico.

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Rien est simple

Pedro Friedeberg

Rien est simple

Sale Date: November 29, 2007

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Silla Mariposa chair, 1965

Pedro Friedeberg

Silla Mariposa chair, 1965

Sale Date: December 9, 2007

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Astroclock-Ological time, 1979

Pedro Friedeberg

Astroclock-Ological time, 1979

Sale Date: December 9, 2007

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Table clock, 1974

Pedro Friedeberg

Table clock, 1974

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Silla Mariposa chair, 1983

Pedro Friedeberg

Silla Mariposa chair, 1983

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Hand chair, 1965

Pedro Friedeberg

Hand chair, 1965

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Hand chair, 1965

Pedro Friedeberg

Hand chair, 1965

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Tres monumentos bananófilos y un eclipse..., 1968

Pedro Friedeberg

Tres monumentos bananófilos y un eclipse..., 1968

Sale Date: November 29, 2007

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Mezquitas

Pedro Friedeberg

Sale Date: November 29, 2007

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Two chairs

Pedro Friedeberg

Sale Date: November 21, 2007

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Chair

Pedro Friedeberg

Sale Date: November 21, 2007

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Torturas pedagógicas, 1988

Pedro Friedeberg

Torturas pedagógicas, 1988

Sale Date: November 21, 2007

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Table and chair (in 2 parts, different sizes), 1994

Pedro Friedeberg

Table and chair (in 2 parts, different sizes), 1994

Sale Date: November 21, 2007

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Sun-moon (+5 others; suite of 6), 1993

Pedro Friedeberg

Sun-moon (+5 others; suite of 6), 1993

Sale Date: November 20, 2007

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Chair

Pedro Friedeberg

Sale Date: November 20, 2007

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Alfabeto inhabitable;..., 1979

Pedro Friedeberg

Alfabeto inhabitable;..., 1979

Sale Date: November 6, 2007

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Table lamp, 1965

Pedro Friedeberg

Table lamp, 1965

Sale Date: October 7, 2007

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Hand table, 1990

Pedro Friedeberg

Hand table, 1990

Sale Date: October 7, 2007

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Measured sleep

Pedro Friedeberg

Measured sleep

Sale Date: September 30, 2007

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La profetisa y su hija

Pedro Friedeberg

La profetisa y su hija

Sale Date: September 9, 2007

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Hand chair

Pedro Friedeberg

Sale Date: April 21, 2007

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Hand and foot chair

Pedro Friedeberg

Hand and foot chair

Sale Date: April 21, 2007

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Hand and foot chair

Pedro Friedeberg

Hand and foot chair

Sale Date: April 21, 2007

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Three gilt wood hand chairs and three silvered...

Pedro Friedeberg

Three gilt wood hand chairs and three silvered...

Sale Date: June 13, 2007

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