Louise Bourgeois

**Louise Bourgeois**
	French-American artist
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Name in native language	Louise Bourgeois;
Date of birth	25 December 1911; 6th arrondissement of Paris; Louise Joséphine Bourgeois
Date of death	31 May 2010; Beth Israel Medical Center
Manner of death	natural causes;
Cause of death	myocardial infarction;
Place of burial	Cutchogue Cemetery;
Pseudonym	Bourgeois, Louise Joséphine; Goldwater, Louise Bourgeois; Goldwater, Mrs. Robert;
Country of citizenship	France; United States of America (1955–);
Educated at	Beaux-Arts de Paris (1936–1938); Art Students League of New York; Académie Julian (1938–1938); Lycée Fénelon, Paris (1921–1927); Académie de la Grande Chaumière (1937–1938); University of Paris (mathematics, 1932–1935); École du Louvre; Atelier 17; Académie Moderne;
Occupation	sculptor; painter; illustrator; jewelry designer; photographer; draughtswoman; installation artist; printmaker; performance artist;
Employer	Brooklyn College;
Member of	American Academy of Arts and Letters; American Academy of Arts and Sciences; American Abstract Artists;
Field of work	art of sculpture;
Movement	abstract expressionism; feminist art; modernism; surrealism; abject art;
Spouse	Robert Goldwater (1938–1973);
Work location	Paris (1929–1939); New York City (1938–2010);
Notable work	Maman; The Welcoming Hands; Spider;
Award received	National Medal of Arts (1997); Knight of the Legion of Honour (2008); Praemium Imperiale (1999); National Women's Hall of Fame (2009); Wolf Prize in Arts (2003); Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (2005); Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award (1980); Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Great Immigrants Award (2009); honorary doctorate (2005);
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	Q159409; ISNI: 0000000120995293; VIAF ID: 19782417; GND ID: 118943375; Library of Congress authority ID: n82272058; Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 12492791j; IdRef ID: 027946630; NDL Authority ID: 00710243; Libraries Australia ID: 35020710; NL CR AUT ID: jo2002106528; SELIBR ID: 211224; National Library of Spain ID: XX863996; Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID: 06970760X; NORAF ID: 3096601, 90826653; NUKAT ID: n99001137; NLP ID (old): a0000001528031; National Library of Korea ID: KAC202245067; Libris-URI: 86lnplgs2lgwg0g; PLWABN ID: 9810564377905606; J9U ID: 987007507962105171; NACSIS-CAT author ID: DA06027098; SBN author ID: RAVV091979; Open Library ID: OL264331A; Union List of Artist Names ID: 500057350; MusicBrainz artist ID: 4f67e453-3085-4e0a-ab49-d7e7ef68603c; RKDartists ID: 11514; Itaú Cultural ID: pessoa10709/louise-bourgeois; Europeana entity: agent/base/65431; IMDb ID: nm1658238; KulturNav-ID: 89b909c7-b30e-4c6a-8a9f-8340cdbfdff1
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Works

Maman
. 1999-2001. bronze, marble and stainless steel. 895 × 980 × 1,160 cm (9.7 × 10.7 × 12.6 yd). Bilbao, Guggenheim Bilbao.
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