Elie Nadelman

Elie Nadelman

Elisenstraße 4-6 Cologne, 50677, Germany Friday, July 31, 2015–Saturday, October 24, 2015


link to Elie Nadelman at Galerie Buchholz Cologne 2015

1909  Nadelman’s first exhibition, at Galerie E. Druet, Paris. / 1910  the magazine Camera Work publishes a text by Nadelman. / 1911  exhibition at Wm. B. Paterson Gallery in London; Helena Rubinstein buys entire show. / 1914  moves to New York. / 1915  the magazine International Studio publishes first English language article on his art by Martin Birnbaum. / 1915  exhibition at Alfred Stieglitz’ 291 Gallery in New York. / 1917  exhibition at Scott & Fowles, New York. / Friendship with Marcel Duchamp and the Stettheimer sisters, especially with Ettie Stettheimer. Nadelman is depicted in Florine Stettheimer’s paintings “Picnic at Bedford Hills”, 1918 and “Lake Placid”, 1919. A sculpture by Nadelman can be seen in Florine Stettheimer’s painting “Flowers with Aphrodite”, c. 1915. Nadelman is also mentioned in Ettie Stettheimer’s novel “Love Days” (1923). Nadelman buys the mansion Alderbrook, in Riverdale, outside of New York. / 1929  following the Wall Street crash, in which Nadelman loses most of his fortune, relocates permanently to Riverdale. / 1948  Lincoln Kirstein organizes the exhibition “The Sculpture of Elie Nadelman” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. / 1966  the sculptor H.C. Westermann (1922-1981) dedicates a sculpture to Nadelman, “Homage to American Art (Dedicated to Elie Nadelman)”. / 1984 the photographer Peter Hujar (1934-1987) visits Alderbrook and photographs Nadelman’s plaster sculptures in the garden surrounding the mansion.