Gerson Leiber
{{Short description|American sculptor (1921–2018)}}
Gerson Leiber (November 12, 1921 – April 28, 2018) was an American painter, lithographer{{Cite web|url=http://www.leibermuseum.org/gerson-leiber/|title=Gerson Leiber {{!}} Leiber Collection|website=www.leibermuseum.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-01}} and sculptor.
Biography
Gerson Leiber was born November 12, 1921, in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Titusville, in northwest Pennsylvania.{{Cite news|last=Sandomir|first=Richard|date=2018-04-30|title=Gerson Leiber, 96, Dies; Artist Created Museum With Designer Wife (Published 2018)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/obituaries/gerson-leiber-96-dies-artist-created-museum-with-designer-wife.html|access-date=2020-11-09|issn=0362-4331}} He served in the United States Army and was assigned to its Signal Corps, during World War II. He met his future wife, Judith Peto while serving overseas in Budapest. They married in 1946 and moved back to the United States, eventually settling in New York City. He enrolled in classes at the Art Students League of New York, and studied with Will Barnet and took engraving classes at Brooklyn Museum Art School.
Leiber's work has been exhibited in more than 200 national and international shows including the Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages,{{Cite web|url=https://longislandmuseum.org/exhibition/brilliant-partners/|title=Brilliant Partners – The Long Island Museum|website=longislandmuseum.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-01}} the Kennedy Galleries and The Israel Museum.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ashevilleart.org/artists/gersonleiber/|title=Gerson Leiber - Asheville Art Museum|website=www.ashevilleart.org|language=en|access-date=2018-05-01}} His work is part of many permanent collections around the world at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian,{{Cite news|url=https://nypost.com/2018/04/30/famed-handbag-designer-husband-of-72-years-die-hours-apart/|title=Famed handbag designer, husband of 72 years die hours apart|date=2018-04-30|work=New York Post|access-date=2018-05-01|language=en-US}} the Brooklyn Museum, the Malmo Museum in Sweden, the Seattle Museum of Art and others. Between 1953 and 1985, he received more than 30 awards and prizes for his work{{Citation needed|date=September 2022}} and was a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists.{{Cite book |last=Gallery |first=University of Kentucky Art |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TZZIAQAAIAAJ&q=Society+of+American+Graphic+Artists+gerson+leiber |title=Graphics '68, Recent American Prints: Exhibition January 14-February 11, 1968, University of Kentucky Art Gallery, Lexington, Kentucky |date=1968 |publisher=The Gallery |language=en}}
In recent years, Leiber and his wife, famous handbag designer Judith Leiber, mounted joint exhibitions of their work both on Long Island and in Manhattan.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/obituaries/judith-leiber-97-dies-turned-handbags-into-objets-dart.html|title=Judith Leiber, 97, Dies; Turned Handbags Into Objets d'Art|last=Nemy|first=Enid|date=2018-04-30|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-05-01|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} Leiber died on April 28, 2018, the same day as his wife, who died a few hours later. They were buried together.
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Category:20th-century American sculptors
Category:Brooklyn Museum Art School alumni
Category:Art Students League of New York alumni
Category:People from Titusville, Pennsylvania
Category:United States Army soldiers
Category:American lithographers
Category:United States Army personnel of World War II
Category:21st-century American sculptors
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