Barbara Weil

Barbara Weil, (1933 in Chicago, Illinois – 19 January 2018 in Port de Andratx, Mallorca) was an artist from the United States, who showed relationships between painting, sculpture, contemporary architecture and the human being in unusual ways in her work. In collaboration with Daniel Libeskind, she created the architecturally significant Studio Weil in Majorca. The building contains work and exhibition spaces of the artist.

Weil was raised in Chicago. She attended Roosevelt University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. While raising a family, she also lived and worked in Southern California, later moving permanently to Majorca, Spain. There she died after a short illness on January 19, 2018.

Giles Worsley, in an article "Beauty without Tears", quoted Libeskind, comparing his Studio Weil project with his large buildings: "It's a meditation on art. As opposed to composing a symphony, it's an unaccompanied cello sonata." In the size of a compact museum, the studio permanently exhibits works of Barbara Weil. Construction of the studio was completed in 2003.

In 1998, Weil was planning to build a studio when she met the architect Daniel Libeskind. The shared intuition of the architect and the artist resulted in a unique studio space where Weil's art is the inspiration for Libeskind's design. Jonathan Glancey, a well-known architectural critic, mentions Weil and Libeskind as "two artists who, unknowingly, had shared something like a common approach to visual form long before Libeskind became news."

Following the architectural forms found in her painting, Weil embarked on a series of fiberglass sculptures in 1979.