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3. Nicolaas Warb
4. Biography

Notes of biography

Of Dutch origins, Nicolaas Warb, pseudonym of Sophie Warburg, was born in Amsterdam in 1906. She disappeared when she was only 50 years old. Abstract painter, she was a student of the Art Academy of Amsterdam.
At a very young age, she decides to move to Paris in 1928. Nicolaas Warb frequents the Free Academy of Montparnasse concerned to study again and to confront other artists. Friend of Jean Leppien, she participates in the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles from its beginnings in 1946 and becomes, until its end, a regular at this event. One of her works ‘Jour en Fete’ (Party Day) will pay tribute to her during the 21st ‘Salon du Nom’ in 1956, as well as works by Francis Picabia, Albert Gleizes, Nicolas de Stael, Chaissac, Auguste Herbin, Roger Bissiere and others as well.
In 1946, one of her lithographs is among the twelve for the album published by Charles Etienne in ‘Abstract Art’ (Ed. Opéra, Paris); she is found in the company of Poliakoff, Del-Marie, Hartung, Domela, Schneider, etc. The artist also participates in collective exhibitions of abstract art in France and abroad (Holland, Italy, etc.).
She generally paints her oils on wood panels, often on laminated wood. She will equally produce numerous gouaches on paper. Her inventiveness is elegant. Nicolaas Warb, influenced by Vantongerloo and the constructivists, practices a geometric abstraction. She shows her work in solo exhibitions that are organized in 1947 at the Greuze Gallery and in 1954 at the Colette Allendy Gallery in Paris.
A posthumous exhibition of her works takes place a few years later at the Baria de Beyrie Gallery in 1974. Two of her works were recently presented to the exhibition ‘Aspects of Abstraction’ at the Museum of Modern Art in the 11th arrondissement in Paris in 2005.

“It was the meeting of Georges Vantongerloo, in 1939, that directed me to constructivism and adding my personality to it.” - Nicolass Warb

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