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Emilie Benes Brzezinski
Born
Emilie Anna Benes

1933 (age 90–91)
Geneva, Switzerland
NationalityAmerican
EducationWellesley College, Massachusetts
Known forSculpture
Spouse
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(m. 1961)​
ChildrenIan (b. 1963)
Mark (b. 1965)
Mika (b. 1967)

Emilie Benes Brzezinski (born Emilie Anna Benes in 1933 in Geneva, Switzerland) is an American sculptor.

Education and career

Emilie Benes earned a fine arts degree at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, United States. After marrying, she sculpted for 25 years while raising a family, then had her first solo show in 1981 in Washington, D.C.[1]

Since the 1980s, most of her works have been in wood. Her monumental 1993 work "Lintel", constructed from cut cherry trees and then cast in bronze, is in the collection of Grounds for Sculpture, a 35-acre (140,000 m2) sculpture park and museum in New Jersey.[2] She exhibited in the 2003 Florence Biennale and participated by invitation in the 2005 Vancouver International Sculpture Biennale.[3]

Personal life: an influential family

Shortly after graduating from Wellesley, Emilie Benes, herself a relative of Czechoslovakia's former president Edvard Beneš, married Zbigniew Brzezinski, a political scientist who served as an adviser to President Carter. The Brzezinskis have three children. Their oldest son, Ian Brzezinski, has served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO Policy in 2001–2005, under President George W. Bush, among other roles. Their second son, Mark Brzezinski, is a lawyer and political appointee who has served as an adviser to President Clinton and President Obama. Their youngest child, Mika Brzezinski, is a television journalist, political commentator, and co-host for MSNBC.[4]

Václav Edvard Beneš, a mathematician, is her brother.

References

  1. ^ "Emilie Brzezinski: Dialog with Wood". Washington, D. C.: American University. Archived from the original on 2006-01-03.
  2. ^ Photo of "Lintel," taken by John Fischer retrieved 13 October 2011
  3. ^ http://ebbsculpture.com/vitae.html
  4. ^ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~atpc/heritage/articles/aleksandra/roots-brzezinski.html
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