{"id":25717,"date":"2023-11-11T12:12:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T10:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=25717"},"modified":"2025-05-10T23:33:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T21:33:33","slug":"sonja-sekula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/sonja-sekula\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonja Sekula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jyqyDHHx_No?si=4GQvDcoRia5oJFyN\" width=\"700\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video (3:49): Let Yourself Continue: Sonja Sekula. Jenny Anger, Professor, the Department Chair of Art History, Grinnell College Museum of Art, talks about two works by Sonja Sekula in their collection.<\/p>\n<h2>About Sonja Sekula<\/h2>\n<p><a title=\"Sonja Sekula's wikipedia page\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sonja_Sekula\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sonja Sekula<\/a> (1918-1963) (also known as Sonia Sekula) was an Swiss-American artist linked with the abstract expressionist movement, notable for her activity as an &#8220;out&#8221; lesbian in the New York art world during the 1940s and early 1950s. Her most productive years were when she was in New York from 1936-1955. On 25 April 1963, she hanged herself in her studio in Zurich after many years of mental health issues. Jenny Anger writes, &#8216;Swiss immigrant Sonja Sekula (1918\u20131963) enjoyed a brilliant early career at the crux of Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism in New York circa 1950. 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