Conrad Marca-Relli
Conrad Marca-Relli (born June 5, 1913 in Boston , Massachusetts ( USA ) as Corrado Marcarelli , † August 29, 2000 in Parma , Italy ) was an American painter of Italian descent. He was one of the important and early exponents of Abstract Expressionism at the New York School .
biography
Conrad Marca-Relli moved to New York with his family in 1927 and initially attended a private painting school. From 1930 he studied art at the "Cooper Union Institute" in New York. From 1935 to 1938 he worked for the WPA ( Works Progress Administration - Federal Art Project ) and came into contact with the artists Willem de Kooning , Franz Kline and John Graham .
After his military service in World War II, he was a member of the “ Downtown Group ” in New York and the avant-garde scene of Greenwich Village artists. In 1949 he was a founding member of the "Artists' Club" in New York. In 1948 he had his first solo exhibition in New York.
Conrad Marca-Relli made the collage , his preferred visual language, a high art. He developed his pictures from early patchwork works to complex paintings to monumental, abstract-expressionist collages that also contained other materials such as plastic and metals.
In the 1950s his art received international attention: In 1956 Marca-Relli was a participant in the XXVIII. Venice Biennale in the American Pavilion (subject: “ American artists paint the city ”) and in 1959 his works were exhibited at documenta 2 in Kassel .
Marca-Relli was a lecturer at Yale University from 1954 to 1955 and from 1959 to 1960 at the University of California at Berkeley . In 1967 the Whitney Museum of American Art held a major retrospective of his art.
Since 1953 he has lived in his house in the neighborhood of Jackson Pollock in Springs , a district of East Hampton (New York) . With increasing artistic success, he began to distance himself from the New York School . In the last years of his life he moved to Parma , Italy with his wife Anita Gibson , where he lived and worked until his death in 2000.
In 1976 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .
Web links
- Literature by and about Conrad Marca-Relli in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography and works on the Hollis Taggart Galleries website
- Examples of his work
- Materials by and about Conrad Marca-Relli in the documenta archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ Members: Conrad Marca-Relli. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 12, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marca-Relli, Conrad |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Marca-Relli, Corrado; Marcarelli, Corrado (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian-American painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 5, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston , Massachusetts ( USA ) |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 29, 2000 |
| Place of death | Parma , Italy |