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Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt)

Venezuela, 1912–1994

WA-00042886

Hamburg

Sculpture

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None documented

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70%

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Authority Records (1)

MoMA

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Printed, Cut, Folded, and Torn

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1974

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Latin-American Art, 1931�1966, from the Museum Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1967

No image

The Responsive Eye

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1965

No image

Recent Acquisitions

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1960–1961

Source Registry (1)

MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/2107
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

Why this artist matters now

Gertrud Louise Goldschmidt, known as Gego, was a modern German-Venezuelan visual artist. Gego is perhaps best known for her geometric and kinetic sculptures made in the 1960s and 1970s, which she described as "drawings without paper".

Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 29d ago

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Institutional

Museum Collections

Art Institute of Chicago Tate

Canonical record

Artworks (5)

Drawing Without Paper 85.22 (Dibujo sin papel 85.22)

1985 · Aluminum, steel wire, screws, wooden pins, iron rods, and coiled springs

80 × 70 × 6.5 cm (31 1/2 × 27 1/2 × 2 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1977 · Bronze

object, each: 555 x 630 x 670 mm

Cover with colophon, from The Never Projected (Lo Nunca Proyectado)

1964 · Cover for set of prints, with handwritten colophon in yellow ink, folded and closed with yellow string

Book, closed: 31.3 × 29.5 × 2.1 cm (12 3/8 × 11 5/8 × 7/8 in.); Book, open: 62.3 × 29.5 × 1.9 cm (24 9/16 × 11 5/8 × 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Starting from a Square (Partiendo de un cuadrado)

1958 · Iron and enamel

51 × 51 × 51 cm (20 × 20 × 20 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Artwork sources (3)

5 published of 89 catalogued · 89 with image

Art Institute Chicago
3 publishedof 15 catalogued15 img
Tate
2 published2 img
+ 1 more source · 72 catalogued, not yet published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 2)

2 entries · 1 sources

Untitled
1977 · Tate · 1 prov
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Untitled
1977 · Tate · 1 prov
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Art Institute of Chicago

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Art Institute of Chicago Tate

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Tate

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Exhibitions and timeline

Group Exhibition Printed, Cut, Folded, and Torn

New York · 1974

Group Exhibition Latin-American Art, 1931�1966, from the Museum Collection

New York · 1967

Group Exhibition The Responsive Eye

New York · 1965

Group Exhibition Recent Acquisitions

New York · 1960