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Sonja Eisenberg (née Weinberger) (1926-4 January 2017) was an American abstract painter, known for her abstract expressionist watercolor and oil paintings.
Eisenberg was born in Berlin and fled Nazi Germany with her family and came to New York where she lived and worked. Her work was heavily inspired by her son, Ronald who at a young age was diagnosed with leukemia.
Eisenberg's works exhibit a progression from dark to light;- an emotional quality of her work that seems to correspond to her optimistic look at life. She focuses on the sensual nature of art, aiming to illustrate her life and feelings through a combination of harmonious colors and smooth textures. Trained in music and dance at the Juilliard School of Performing Arts, Eisenberg is in tune with her own method of abstraction, translating her personal experience into her works— among them, watercolors, pastels, oils and collages.
In the words of author and lecturer Olivier Bernier of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "That her technique is dazzling goes without saying: these transparent mists, these vaporous distances, these infinitely subtle shades which appear in her work seem as if nature itself had made them; but then great art always seem inevitable. We are offered a series of voluptuous pleasures as we look at the wealth of details; and that is as it should be. Other artists might think that, alone, as a sufficient achievement. Eisenberg knows better: even as her work seduces the eye, it speaks to the soul; and that is why it will remain after so much else is forgotten."
Eisenberg is represented by the Leonard Tourne Gallery.
Eisenberg is the niece-in-law of Denise Rich (Eisenberg)

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