Alfred Van Loen

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Alfred Van Loen (born on September 11, 1924 in Oberhausen-Osterfeld as Alfred Löwenthal ; died on January 15, 1993 in the state of New York ) was a German-born American sculptor , painter , wood cutter and poet .

Life

Alfred Van Loen was born the son of the Jewish merchant Karl Löwenthal and his wife Hedwig, née Jäger, and had a sister. At the time of National Socialism , his parents sent him to the school of the Dominican monastery “ Mariaweide ” in Venlo, Holland . After his parents also fled to Amsterdam in 1938 due to the persecution of Jews in the Third Reich , he joined them and studied in Amsterdam from 1941 to 1946 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts . At the same time he was enrolled at the local state school for arts and crafts, the Rijksschool voor Kunstnijverheid Amsterdam. During his student days he was active underground, spying and distributing anti-Nazi leaflets. After a friend betrayed him, he was arrested by the Gestapo and spent 16 months in Auschwitz . His personal descriptions at this time often lacked details and were sometimes contradictory.

After his health recovered from the effects of his imprisonment, he and his parents changed the family name from Löwenthal - written Lowenthal in English literature - to Van Loen and completed training in anatomy, architectural drawing, pottery, carpentry and metal casting at the Rijksschool voor Kunstnijverheid . In 1947 he went to the United States, where he settled in New York State on April 4, 1947. From there he also made trips to Mexico and Europe. Alfred Van Loen, whose first marriage, which they had entered into in Germany before the Second World War , soon divorced, was his second marriage to the artist Helen Roberts in 1958 . From 1953 to 1954 he taught at Hunter College , from 1955 to 1961 at the North Shore Community Art Center in Long Island and from 1962 as an assistant professor at the CW Post College of Long Island University . From 1969 to 1976 he also curated the art gallery at the South Huntington Public Library, which was then on South Huntington's Melville Road .

Van Loen, a tall, slender man with diabetes mellitus , later found himself in a wheelchair due to a knee amputation . He was a member of the Artists Equity Association (AEA: now New York Artists Equity Association ), the American Society of Contemporary Artist , the American Craft Council and the Huntington Artists Group .

Works by him can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art , the Museum of Modern Art , the Brooklyn Museum and the Israel Museum , Jerusalem. The exhibition space of the former South Huntington Public Library was named after him after his death in 1993. After the library moved to Pidgeon Hill Road , the Alfred Van Loen Gallery named after him is located in the basement of the library building.

Exhibitions (selection)

Catalogs / book illustrations

  • Alfred Van Loen: David . Morris Gallery Press, New York (NY) 1956.
  • Alfred Van Loen: Simple Methods of Sculpture. Channel Press, Great Neck (NY) 1958.
  • Alfred Van Loen; Paul Mocsanyi (text): Alfred Van Loen. Channel Press, | Great Neck (NY) 1960.
  • Alfred Van Loen: Origin of Structure and Design. No. One. Hamilton Lithographers, Huntington Station (NY) 1967. (Design from 1967 in cooperation with Hamilton Lithographers)
  • Alfred Van Loen: Drawings. Harbor Gallery Press, New York (NY) 1969. (Dedicated to Pablo Casals ; donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Alfred Van Loen in 1977)
  • Alfred Van Loen; Mary Anthony (foreword): The Dancing line. Hamilton Press, Huntington (NY) 1982.
  • Alfred Van Loen: Sculpture and drawings by Alfred Van Loen. Hutchins Gallery of the B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library, At the Hutchins Gallery of the B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library, CW Post College, Long Island University. Celebrating Thirty-five Years of Teaching Sculpture. September 12 - October 3, 1982. Long Island University 1982.
  • Long Island University, CW Post Art Faculty Exhibition Featuring Alfred Van Loen, Sandra Benny Vaux, Donald Yacoe. August 29 - September 21, 1984. Hillwood Art Gallery, School of the Arts, Long CW Post Campus, Island University, 1984.
  • Alfred Van Loen; Anthony Ostroff (text): The endless line. Confrontation Magazine, Press, Long Island University, 1985.
  • Stanley H. Barkan (poet); Alfred Van Loen: ABC Bestiary. Cross-Cultural Communications, Merrick (NY) 1990. (in cooperation with the Wiesner Gallery)
  • David Curzon (poet); Alfred Van Loen (Ill.): Confession of Faith. Cross-Cultural Communications, Merrick (NY) 1991.
  • Alfred Van Loen; Eleanor Flomenhaft (text); Victor Bennett Forbes (foreword); Carlo Buscemi (photo / design): Beyond time. The art of Alfred Van Loen. Sunstorm Arts Publications, Ronkonkoma (NY) 1993.
  • Alfred Van Loen: Phantom pain: story and drawings. [= Issue 4 of Occasional book series ]; Confrontation Magazine Press, Long Island University, 1993.
  • Stanley H. Barkan (poet); Alfred Van Loen (Ill.): The sacrifice. A midrash of origins. New Feral Press, Oyster Bay (NY) 1995.

literature

  • Paul Mocsanyi: Alfred Van Loen. Channel Press, 1960.
  • Alfred Van Loen. In: Current Biography Yearbook 1961. HW Wilson, 1962, pp. 466-468.
  • Van Loen, Alfred. In: Glenn B. Opitz (Ed.): Dictionary of American sculptors. 18th century to the present. Pough-keepsie, New York 1984.
  • Van Loen, Alfred. In: Who's Who in American Art. RR Bowker, 1990, p. 1150.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ also found as Alfred von Loen

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Van Loen: Phantom pain: story and drawings. Confrontation Magazine Press, Long Island University, 1993. ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  2. ^ A b Rhonda J. Moore: Biobehavioral Approaches to Pain. Springer Science & Business Media, 2008, p. 339. ISBN 978-0-387-78323-9 . ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  3. ^ Karl Löwenthal Collection. Center for Jewish History , New York City.
  4. ↑ Van Loen, Alfred. In: Current Biography Yearbook 1961. HW Wilson, 1962, p. 466.
  5. ↑ a b Alfred van Loen Gallery. South Huntington Public Library.
personal data
SURNAME Van Loen, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lowenthal, Alfred (maiden name); Loen, Alfred von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-born American sculptor, painter, wood cutter and poet
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberhausen-Osterfeld
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1993
Place of death New York , United States