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THBYURI (GEORGE) SCHWEBLER (YUGOSLAVIAN/AMERICAN, 1942-1990)
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555 Washington Ave, Ste 129
St. Louis, MO 63101
United States
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Yuri (George) Schwebler
Yugoslavian/American, 1942-1990
Mirror Veil, 1979
Mixed media, signed, titled, and dated to interior
Sheets of glass, layered and constructed in an architectural, modernist manner to sequester small rocks, a mirrored backdrop to the shadowbox containment.
Yuri Schwebler was born in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia in 1943. His early childhood was clearly marked by the times, his father facing all from conscription into the Wehrmacht to the tortures of a Russian Labor camp, which would lead to the breaking of both his legs. Once the family was reunited in 1956, they wasted no time in emigrating, Schwebler and both younger sisters in tow, to Delaware.
Fresh out of Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College), Schwebler was drafted in to the United States Army Reserve in 1965. After his discharge, he started using the anglicized name George Schwebler. By 1967, he moved to Washington, D.C., and in 1970, moved with his wife, Joanne Hedge, to Marin County, California, and worked briefly at the Sausalito Art Center. When the marriage dissolved in March 1970, he spent two months at the Mendocino State Hospital before returning to Washington, D.C. He moved to New York in 1980, and stopped making art around 1981.
His CV in “The Studio” catalog staked Schwebler's roots in DC, complimented by numerous gallery exhibitions as well as exhibitions at the Phillips Collection and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. He earned an NEA fellowship in 1975, a sculpture installed at ArtPark in 1976, and was included in the 10th Paris Biennale of Young Artists in 1977. In a 1981 exhibition in the Hudson River Museum, Schwebler recreated art studios of sculptors Alexander Calder (In the Tracks of Calder), Piet Mondrian, Alberto Giacometti (Giacometti’s Table [Where Painting Meets Sculpture], 1981), David Smith and Constantin Brancusi, with his own artistic sensibilities.
Schwebler died at age 47 on March 3, 1990, in Marlborough, New York by suicide and carbon monoxide poisoning. He was survived by his partner, artist Enid Sanford, his mother Eva (née Lasi) Schwebler, and two sisters. His work was part of the posthumous retrospective art exhibition, Yuri Schwebler: The Spiritual Plan (2020) curated by John James Anderson at the American University Museum.
Shadowbox: 15 1/8 x 20 x 8 1/8 in. (38.4 x 50.8 x 20.6 cm.)
The Artist,
Ex Iowa Wesleyan University collection;
Bequeathed by the Alden Lowell Doud Estate, Washington D.C.
Alden Lowell Doud (American, 1935-1912) of Iowa City, formerly of Douds, was a former First Lieutenant and Captain of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General Corp. After serving in the military, he joined the Office of the Legal Adviser in the U.S. State Department in 1967 where he became the first Assistant Legal Adviser for Environmental Affairs. He authored the first drafts of several important environmental treaties including the World Heritage Convention. He was also a member of the U.S. delegation in the negotiations forming the International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium (INTELSAT).
In 1973, Mr. Doud joined the World Bank Legal Department as its principal administrative attorney and rose to the title of Chief Counsel until his retirement in 1996. Post retirement,
he studied at the Courtlaud Institute of Art in London and continued art studies at Bard Graduate Center in New York City.
He moved to Iowa City in 1998 and served as Chairman of Board of Trustees of Iowa Wesleyan until 2005 when he received an honorary degree Ll. D. and was made Chairman Emeritus. He was a member of University of Iowa President's Club, the Members Council of the University Museum of Art, the Harvard Club of New York City, and other arts related organizations.Condition
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