Jack Tworkov

Jack Tworkov (born August 15, 1900 in Biała Podlaska near Lublin , Generalgouvernement Warsaw , Russian Empire , † September 4, 1982 in Provincetown , Massachusetts ) was an American painter of Polish descent. He was one of the well-known representatives of Abstract Expressionism .

Life

Tworkov emigrated to the USA in 1913 at the age of 13 .

He studied at Columbia University in New York from 1920 to 1923 and at the Art Students' League and the National Academy of Design from 1923 to 1925. At the end of the 1920s, during the Depression , he met the artist Willem de Kooning and other representatives of Abstract Expressionism. Together they found the "New York School".

Jack Tworkov was a teacher at various American colleges and universities. These include the American University, Black Mountain College in North Carolina , Queens College, the Pratt Institute in Manhattan ( New York City ), the University of Minnesota, and Yale University. At Yale he was head of the art department ("Art Department") from 1963 to 1969.

Tworkov, along with Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning, was one of the “action painters” of Abstract Expressionism in the 1940s and 1950s. His painting of this time is characterized by expressive brushstrokes. Later, in the 1960s, straight lines and geometric structures in pure colors are characteristic of his paintings.

In 1959 Jack Tworkov took part in documenta II in Kassel .

Jack Tworkov died on September 4, 1982 in Provincetown in the state of Massachusetts .

Sources and literature

• Tworkov, Jack / Cooper, Harry; Jack Tworkov: Red, White and Blue ; 2002 ISBN 0-9713844-4-4
• Armstrong, Richard; Jack Tworkov: Paintings 1928-1982 ; Washington 1987 ISBN 0-295-96499-5
• Exhibition catalog for documenta II (1959) in Kassel : II.documenta '59. Art after 1945 ; Catalog: Volume 1: Painting; Volume 2: Sculpture; Volume 3: Graphic Art; Text tape; Kassel / Cologne 1959

Web links

• Materials by and about Jack Tworkov in the documenta archive