Gego art
Gego: An Architect of the Line
I encountered Gego (or rather her art) for the first time at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City last spring. It was a Sunday afternoon, and I was on my way to Central Park when I decided to visit the exhibition that had just opened at the museum, titled “Measuring Infinity.” Little did I know, it turned out to be the best exhibition I had ever seen at the Guggenheim.
Gego (Gertrude Goldschmidt) was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1912. Her pseudonym is a fusion of the first two letters of her last and first names, inspired by her older sister Hanna, who called herself Hego.
With a background in engineering and architecture, Gego graduated from the Technische Hohschule in Stuttgart. Her education equipped her with a strong foundation of technical drawing, geometry, and meticulous attention to detail all of which are evident in her carefully planned artworks. Some artists used color as their main tool of expression (such as Suzanne Valadon, Hilma Theodore roosevelt picture biography.