Márta Pán

The recorded working language is French and Hungarian. The field of work recorded is art of sculpture. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are abstract art. Works named in the authority record are Signe infini, Sculpture and Fontaine-labyrinthe. Work by Márta Pán is recorded in the collections of Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Kröller-Müller Museum, Musée de la sculpture en plein air, Ashmolean Museum and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Distinctions recorded are Praemium Imperiale.

• Name — Marta Pan • Born — 12 June 1923 • Birthplace — Budapest, Hungary • Died — 12 October 2008 • Place of death — Paris, France • Education — Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Budapest • Field — Sculpture

Marta Pan was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1923. She studied art at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Budapest.

Pan's sculptures are highly concerned with balance, symmetry, and geometry. She often created her works so that they were site-specific and worked with the surrounding environment. In 1946 Pan moved to Paris, where she met Constantin Brâncuşi and Fernand Léger. In 1952 she married André Wogenscky, who was a studio assistant to Le Corbusier. Her early sculptures were highly influenced by the architecture of Le Corbusier. In 1956, Pan created Le Teck, which consisted of two moveable parts. The choreographer Maurice Béjart later created a ballet, also entitled Le Teck, inspired directly by Pan's sculpture. Béjart's ballet was premiered on the roof of Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation building in Marseille, France. Until 1960, all of Pan's sculptures consisted of this two-part construction method, which allowed one piece to be moved, thus altering the work. In 1990 she made Celle floating sculpture in Italy for the Gori collection - Fattoria di Celle.

Pan died on 12 October 2008 in Paris, France.

In 2001 Pan was awarded the prestigious Praemium Imperiale award for Sculpture from the Japan Art Society. Pan's work was included in the 2021 exhibition Women in Abstraction at the Centre Pompidou.

• Illustration — Amphitheatre • Illustration — Floating sculpture • Illustration — Floating sculpture