Burgoyne Diller

Burgoyne Diller (born January 13, 1906 in New York City , USA ; † January 30, 1965 there ) was an American painter and sculptor and a representative of geometric abstraction .

life and work

A. Burgoyne Diller grew up in Michigan and moved to New York in 1928. He studied at the Art Students League of New York from 1929 until 1934. Harry Holtzman was a friend and classmate . He received his decisive influences from the teachers Jan Matulka and Hans Hofmann .

In the early 1930s he showed great interest in the work of Kazimir Malevich and in the Russian constructivist painters. Many of his best-known works are characterized by orthogonal geometric shapes, which also demonstrate a strong interest in the De Stijl movement and in the work of Piet Mondrian in particular.

Burgoyne Diller was a founding member of the American Abstract Artists . Diller's abstract work is also considered "constructivist". He also created pictures and representative works early in his career as a wall painter for the New York City Federal Arts Project . In 1968 he was represented posthumously at the 4th documenta in Kassel with 4 strictly square , geometrically abstract pictures .

His work is part of the collections of many major museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, as well as the National Gallery of Art and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC

literature

• Exhibition catalog for the IV. Documenta: IV. Documenta. International exhibition ; Catalog: Volume 1: (Painting and Sculpture); Volume 2: (Graphics / Objects); Kassel 1968
• Kimpel, Harald / Stengel, Karin: documenta IV 1968 International Exhibition - A Photographic Reconstruction (series of publications from the documenta archive); Bremen 2007, ISBN 978-3-86108-524-9

Web links

• Examples of his work
• Example of his work in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
• Materials by and about Burgoyne Diller in the documenta archive