# Art Brenner
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'''Art Brenner''' (1924–2013) was an American [abstract](/source/abstract_art) [sculptor](/source/sculptor) and [painter](/source/Painting). Born in [New York City](/source/New_York_City), he lived and worked in [Paris](/source/Paris) from 1964 to 2012.[{{cite web|title=Art Brenner (1924 - 2013)|url=http://peytonwright.com/modern/artists/art-brenner/|publisher=Peyton Wright Gallery|accessdate=3 September 2015}}]
He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in cities such as [Paris](/source/Paris), [London](/source/London), [Avignon](/source/Avignon), [Barcelona](/source/Barcelona), [Brussels](/source/Brussels), [Brest](/source/Brest%2C_France), [Amsterdam](/source/Amsterdam), [Heidelberg](/source/Heidelberg), [Montreal](/source/Montreal), and [Adelaide, Australia](/source/Adelaide%2C_Australia).{{Citation needed|date=May 2008}}
His work is in public collections in France, Spain, and the United States ([Rose Art Museum](/source/Rose_Art_Museum) at [Brandeis University](/source/Brandeis_University) in [Waltham, Massachusetts](/source/Waltham%2C_Massachusetts); [Wadsworth Atheneum](/source/Wadsworth_Atheneum), [Hartford, Conn.](/source/Hartford%2C_Conn.); [Anchorage Museum of History and Art](/source/Anchorage_Museum_of_History_and_Art), [Anchorage, Alaska](/source/Anchorage%2C_Alaska)). He was also the subject of a short CNN film, "An American Sculptor in Paris" (1995). The French government has honored him by inducting him as a "Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres", the French equivalent of induction into the [American Academy of Arts and Letters](/source/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Letters).
==Concern with sculptural monumentality and architecture==
As a sculptor whose works are frequently large and created for public, architectural settings, Brenner wrote a 1971 article for ''Leonardo'' magazine (MIT Press)[{{Cite journal |last=Brenner |first=Art |date=1971 |title=Concerning Sculpture and Architecture |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1572183 |journal=Leonardo |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=99–107 |doi=10.2307/1572183 |issn=0024-094X|url-access=subscription }}] entitled "Concerning Sculpture and Architecture", in which he observes that "the monumental scale of modern sculpture... has quickly moved sculpture from the private to the public sector, that is toward a renewal of its relation with architecture." He also notes that "It has been argued that modern architecture by its very nature, its functionalism and purity, has little need for sculpture."