Erwin Hauer is an Austria

Austria

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n-born American sculptor who studied first at Vienna

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's Academy of Applied Arts and later under Josef Albers

Josef Albers

Josef Albers was a German-born American artist and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of some of the most influential and far-reaching art education programs of the 20th century....

 at Yale

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. Hauer was an early proponent of Modular Constructivism

Modular constructivism

Modular constructivism is a style of sculpture that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s and was associated especially with Erwin Hauer and Norman Carlberg...

 and an associate of Norman Carlberg

Norman Carlberg

Norman Carlberg is an American sculptor and printmaker. He is noted as an exemplar of the modular constructivist style....

. Like Carlberg, he was especially known for his minimalist, repetitive pieces in the 1950s and 1960s.

According to ribabookshops.com, Hauer's sculptures are in many public collections, including those of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago

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, the Wadsworth Atheneum

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, the Museum of the National Academy of Design

National Academy of Design

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, and others. Erwin Hauer is Professor Emeritus at the Yale University

Yale University

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 School of Art, where he taught from 1957 until 1990.

Hauer's design studio in New Haven, Connecticut

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 is well known for the production of sculptural, light-diffusing architectural screens and walls employing Hauer's modular style.

See also

• Josef Albers
  Josef Albers
  Josef Albers was a German-born American artist and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of some of the most influential and far-reaching art education programs of the 20th century....
  
  
• Constructivism (art)
  Constructivism (art)
  Constructivism was an artistic and architectural philosophy that originated in Russia beginning in 1919, which was a rejection of the idea of autonomous art. The movement was in favour of art as a practice for social purposes. Constructivism had a great effect on modern art movements of the 20th...
  
  
• Minimalism
  Minimalism
  Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts...
  
  
• Modular constructivism
  Modular constructivism
  Modular constructivism is a style of sculpture that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s and was associated especially with Erwin Hauer and Norman Carlberg...
  
  
• Norman Carlberg
  Norman Carlberg
  Norman Carlberg is an American sculptor and printmaker. He is noted as an exemplar of the modular constructivist style....
  
  

External links

• Erwin Hauer's homepage, with Hauer bio
• "Sculpting Infinity" article in Metropolis magazine, October 2006
• New Arts Gallery information on Erwin Hauer including COLOR IMAGES
• Information on Erwin Hauer Studios from architonic.com
• Ribabookshops.com information on Erwin Hauer
• Marylandartsouce.com information on relation between Hauer and colleague Norman Carlberg at Yale
• Yale University website page listing Erwin Hauer under "FACULTY EMERITI"