(1913–2003)
Ibram Lassaw was born in Egypt to Russian-Jewish parents. The family lived in Marseille, Naples, Tunis, Malta, and Constantinople before settling in Brooklyn, New York, in 1921.
He was one of America's first abstract sculptors, and best known for open-space welded sculptures made of bronze, silver, copper and steel.
He drew from Surrealism, Constructivism, and Cubism. He was one of the first to develop a welding technique that allowed him to weld in three dimensions.