Helen Frankenthaler
Helen Frankenthaler (born December 12, 1928 in New York City , † December 27, 2011 in Darien , Connecticut ) was an American painter and an important exponent of color field painting and abstract expressionism . Her best-known works include the paintings Mountains and Sea (1952) and Robinson's Wrap (1974).
Life
Helen Frankenthaler was the youngest of three daughters of the New York Supreme Court judge Alfred Frankenthaler and the German-born Martha Lowenstein Frankenthaler.
She attended private schools and from 1945 received painting lessons at the New York Dalton School with Rufino Tamayo . In 1946 she studied at Bennington College in Vermont , and from 1947 to 1949 at the Art Students League of New York . In 1950 she took private lessons with Hans Hofmann . She also studied art history at Columbia University with Meyer Schapiro .
Air frame (sheet 7 in: New York ten) by Helen Frankenthaler (1965) from the holdings of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
Link to the picture
In the New York art scene in the 1950s, she met avant-garde artists such as Jackson Pollock and Robert Motherwell , who inspired her to create her own spontaneous, abstract visual language. Other important influences were the work of Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland . In 1958 she married Robert Motherwell, the marriage lasted until 1971. In 1959 she took part in Documenta II in Kassel .
Frankenthaler taught at numerous institutes and universities, including Yale University , until the late 1980s . In 1974 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters , in 1991 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1994 a member ( NA ) of the National Academy of Design .
Helen Frankenthaler died on December 27, 2011 at the age of 83.
literature
- Helen Frankenthaler: Helen Frankenthaler. Mountains and Sea and the years thereafter, 1956–1959 . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2002, ISBN 3-7757-0794-8 .
- Annette Reich, Svenja Kriebel: Abstract Expressionism in America. Lee Krasner , Elaine de Kooning , Hedda Sterne , Joan Mitchell , Helen Frankenthaler . Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern , 2001, ISBN 3-89422-114-3 .
Web links
- Helen Frankenthaler Foundation
- The woman who freed the paint - obituary of the FAZ
- The Art-Story.org
- Art Archives
- Literature by and about Helen Frankenthaler in the catalog of the German National Library
- Materials by and about Helen Frankenthaler in the documenta archive
- Helen Frankenthal in the nndb (English)
- Photo series by Ernst Haas from 1969 that provides information about the artist's working method
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Grace Glueck: Helen Frankenthaler, Abstract Painter Who Shaped a Movement, Dies at 83. The New York Times, December 27, 2011, accessed January 1, 2012 .
- ↑ a b c Helen Frankenthaler. Ketterer Kunst, accessed January 1, 2012 .
- ^ The Dedalus Foundation's Robert Motherwell Scrapbooks , The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York, accessed February 17, 2015
- ↑ nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "F" / Frankenthaler, Helen NA 1994 ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on June 22, 2015)
- ^ Expressionism: painter Helen Frankenthaler is dead. In: Die Zeit. December 28, 2011, accessed February 26, 2013 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Frankenthaler, Helen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter |
| BIRTH DATE | December 12, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 27, 2011 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Darien , Connecticut |