Uploaded August 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Today is Gego's birthday!
Gego, or Gertrud Goldschmidt (b. 1912, Hamburg; d. 1994, Caracas), first trained as an architect and engineer at the Technische Hochschule Stuttgart (now Universität Stuttgart). Fleeing Nazi persecution in 1939, she immigrated to Venezuela, where she settled permanently, fully embarking on an artistic career in the 1950s that would span more than four decades. In two- and three-dimensional works across a variety of mediums, Gego explored the relationship between line, space, and volume. Her practice in the related fields of architecture, design, and teaching complemented those investigations.
Find out more on her work in this excerpt of our documentary "Gego: The Lines of a Life."
Watch the full documentary here:
youtube.com/watch?v=ouNiCyAOeyQ
Today is Gego's birthday!
Gego, or Gertrud Goldschmidt (b. 1912, Hamburg; d. 1994, Caracas), first trained as an architect and engineer at the Technische Hochschule Stuttgart (now Universität Stuttgart). Fleeing Nazi persecution in 1939, she immigrated to Venezuela, where she settled permanently, fully embarking on an artistic career in the 1950s that would span more than four decades. In two- and three-dimensional works across a variety of mediums, Gego explored the relationship between line, space, and volume. Her practice in the related fields of architecture, design, and teaching complemented those investigations.
Find out more on her work in this excerpt of our documentary "Gego: The Lines of a Life."
Watch the full documentary here:
youtube.com/watch?v=ouNiCyAOeyQ
