Nancy Spero (1926 - 2009)

Spero grew up in Chicago from 1927. She studied from 1944 to 1945 at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and from 1945 to 1949 at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. 1949–1950 she attended the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts and the studio of André Lhote in Paris, where she met her husband, the painter Leon Golub (m 1951). The couple lived in Florence and on Ischia (1956–1957), in Paris (1959–1964) and in New York from 1964. Spero was a political activist and feminist. She is linked with Salzburg through her teaching, together with Golub, at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in 1992–1996 and 2000, and her award of the 2009 Herbert Boeckl Prize.

Author: Ducke Astrid

Literature: Ducke Astrid, Habersatter Thomas (Hrsg./Edi.): von | from 0 auf | to 100. Residenzgalerie Salzburg 1923-2023. Salzburg 2023, S./p. 334