Sonia Sekula

Sonia Sekula (18 April 1918 – 25 April 1963) (also known as Sonja Sekula) was a Swiss-born artist linked with the abstract expressionist movement, notable for her activity as an "out" lesbian in the New York art world during the 1940s and early 1950s.[1]

She was born in Lucerne on 8 April 1918 to a Swiss mother, Berta Huguenin (1896–1980), and a Hungarian father, Béla Sekula (1881–1966), a philatelist.

She lived in America from 1936 to 1955. She attended Sarah Lawrence College. She met the surrealists in exile in New York during 1942.[2] On 25 April 1963 she hanged herself in her studio in Zurich after many years of mental health issues.[3] She is buried in St. Moritz as she had requested in a letter to her mother.[4]

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  1. Richard Mann (2015), glbtqarchive.com
  2. "Sonja Sekula - Time Line". www.sonja-sekula.org. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  3. http://www.glbtq.com/arts/sekula_s,4.html
  4. "Sonja Sekula - Time Line". www.sonja-sekula.org. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  5. Glueck, Grace (1996-09-20). "A Golden Girl Escaping Into Infinity". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  6. "Art in America". www.sonja-sekula.org. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  7. http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/20/arts/a-golden-girl-escaping-into-infinity.html?pagewanted=1
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