Liberman, Alexander

Liberman, Alexander
▪ 2000

      Russian-born artist and editor (b. Sept. 4, 1912, Kiev, Ukraine Russian Empire—d. Nov. 19, 1999, Miami Beach, Fla.), was the legendary editorial director (1962–94) of Condé Nast publications and credited with inventing the look of the modern fashion magazine. The son of a wealthy timber merchant, Liberman attended boarding school in London and studied painting and architecture in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts. He took his first job as art director at Vu in 1931, becoming managing editor before departing in 1936. After a failed brief first marriage, Liberman moved to New York in 1941 with Tatiana du Plessix, another Russian émigré, whom he married a year later. On the strength of a magazine-design prize he won at the Universal Exposition in Paris in 1937, Liberman was hired at Condé Nast in the art department of Vogue. Elevated to art director of all Condé Nast publications in 1960 and editorial director in 1962, Liberman established himself as the magazine world's supreme arbiter of taste and style. His modern, realistic, ever-changing approach to fashion photography and magazine design redefined American standards of beauty. Throughout his high-profile career, Liberman and his wife maintained an equally high-profile social life, entertaining an array of celebrities and artists—among them Marlene Dietrich, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Salvador Dalí, and Yves Saint Laurent. Struggling to forge an identity as an artist apart from his commercial successes, Liberman painted and sculpted, with varying degrees of success. Some of his sculptures were housed in the Tate Gallery in London and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. He was also the author of several books on photography and design. Liberman stepped down from his position as editorial director at Condé Nast in 1994 but remained with the publisher as deputy chairman of editorial.

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