Bedingt durch den Ausbruch des Krieges in den USA und seine dadurch erforderliche Arbeit auf der elterlichen Hühnerfarm musste er bereits nach einem Jahr das Studium unterbrechen. Lecture will be followed by a viewing of the sculpture and remarks about the restoration by Rowan Geiger He was presented with the United States National Medal of Arts in 1999. Lowenberg convinced Segal to take on the project. Er begann 1941 ein Kunststudium an der Cooper Union School of Art .


George Segal (November 26, 1924 – June 9, 2000) was an American painter and sculptor associated with the Pop Art movement. Another plaster version of Segal’s “The Holocaust” can be found at The Jewish Museum in New York. Join us for a special lecture by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett as we explore and analyze the creation and reception of George Segal's The Holocaust and how it speaks to its time, what does it say about our current climate and its relation to other works of contemporary art. Lowenberg convinced Segal to take on the project. George Segal wurde 1924 als Sohn polnischer Einwanderer in New York geboren.

George Segal, (born November 26, 1924, New York, New York, U.S.—died June 9, 2000, South Brunswick, New Jersey), American sculptor of monochromatic cast plaster figures often situated in environments of mundane furnishings and objects.

Apr 13, 2019 - Explore mojibayat's board "pop art" on Pinterest. He met Segal in the 1980s, while serving on a mayor's committee to raise funds for a Holocaust memorial sculpture and find an artist to produce it. See more ideas about Pop art, Art, George segal.

George Segal (November 26, 1924 – June 9, 2000) was an American painter and sculptor associated with the Pop Art movement. George Segal’s Holocaust Memorial Sculpture in San Francisco Dozens of Holocaust memorials have been built in other places that are very far removed from the sites where the events actually took place. George Segal's extraordinary memorial proposes a line of inquiry strikingly different from the familiar exercise - at once useless and obscene - of comparing the Nazi murder machine to other mass exterminations in order to establish a hierarchy of historical horrors.