| Alexander Lieberman | ||
| Birth Date: September 4,1912 |
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| Death Date: November 19, 1999 Artist Gallery |
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| Alexander Semenovitch Liberman was born September 4, 1912 in Russia. The family moved to Moscow when Liberman’s father took a post advising the Soviet government. In 1921 the father secured permission from Lenin and the Politburo to take his son to London. Alexander Liberman was educated in Russia, England and France and began his career in Paris where he worked in photography under Lucien Vogen and the magazine Vu.
Liberman was briefly married in 1936 to Hildegrade Sturm, a model and competitive skier. His second wife whom he married in 1942, Tatiana Yacovleff du Plessix Lieberman had been a childhood playmate and baby sitter. In 1941, they escaped together from occupied France, via Lisbon, to New York. She had operated a hat salon in Paris, and then designed hats for Henri Bendel in New York. She continued in millinery at Saks Fifth Avenue until the mid-1950s.
After immigrating to New York in 1941, he began working Condé Nast Publications, rising to the position of Editorial Director from 1962 to 1994. Only in the 1950s did Liberman take up painting and later, metal sculpture. His sculptures are made from industrial objects such a I-beams, pipes, drums, etc. often painted in uniform bright colors.
Tatiana, his wife of many years, passed away in 1991. In 1992 Lieberman married yet again, Melinda Pechangco, a nurse who had cared for Tatiana during an illness.
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