Jules Olitski

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Jules Olitski (born March 27, 1922 in Snowsk , † February 4, 2007 in New York ; actually Jewel Demikowski ) was an American painter and sculptor of Ukrainian origin. He is considered an important representative of abstract art.

Life

Olitski, who was born a few months after his father was executed by the Soviet government, fled to the United States with his mother and grandmother in 1923 and grew up in Brooklyn . In 1926, his mother married the widower Hyman Olitski, who brought two other sons into the marriage. From 1939 to 1942 Olitski attended the National Academy of Design in New York and then the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York. Since Olitski took part in World War II , he had to interrupt his training until 1949 and then studied at the Academie Grande Chaumiere in Paris with Ossip Zadkine . He completed his studies in 1954 as a Master of Arts at New York University .

In the 1960s, Olitski made a name for himself as a representative of color field painting . In 1968 he participated in the 4th documenta in Kassel .

In 1991 Jules Olitski was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 1994 a member ( NA ) of the National Academy in New York and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2006 . Olitski lived and worked in studios in New Hampshire and Florida .

Jules Olitski died of cancer on February 4, 2007.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "O" / Olitski, Jules NA 1994 ( Memento of the original from May 6, 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 July 6, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalacademy.org
  2. ↑ Members: Jules Olitski. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 18, 2019 .

literature

  • Jules Olitski. Recent Paintings. Essay by Rosalind E. Krauss. Institute of Contemporary Art / University of Pennsylvania in Collaboration with Hayden Gallery and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Philadelphia / Cambridge, Mass. 1968.
  • Jules Olitski. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, distributed by New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, Conn. 1973.
  • Jules Olitski. New pictures - New paintings. André Emmerich Gallery , Zurich 1974.
  • Jules Olitski. Galleria dell'Ariete, Milano 1974.
  • Moffet, Kenworth: Jules Olitski. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, New York 1981.
  • Jules Olitski. Selected Paintings: 1962–1985. A retrospective view. Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona 1986.
  • Buschlen, Don (Ed.): Jules Olitski. Communing with the power. Buschlen Mowatt Fine Arts Ltd, Vancouver 1989.
  • Jules Olitski. Paintings from the 1960s. André Emmerich Gallery / Knoedler Kasmin Ltd, London 1989.
  • Wilkin, Karen; Long, Stephen: The Prints of Jules Olitski. A Catalog Raisonné 1954–1989. Associated American Artists, New York 1989.
  • Money payer, Henry; Hilton, Tim; Fourcade, Dominique: Jules Olitski: Paintings 1988–1990; Paintings 1952-1990; Peintures 1960-1990; Pinturas 1958-1990; Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Galerie Montaigne, Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, Galeria Afinsa / Galeria Almirante, New York 1990.
  • Jules Olitski. Selected Paintings 1963–1990. A retrospective view. Gallery One, Toronto 1990.
  • Five Decades of Jules Olitski. Introduction by Marianne Friedland. Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, Florida 1999.
  • Jules Olitski. The New Hampshire Exhibits Autumn 2003. A ten year retrospective 1993-2003. Essay written by Jim Walsh. DVD Production by Cine Magnetics NY. Four Fourty, Marlboro Vermont 2005.
  • Jules Olitski. Six Decades. Essay by Karen Wilkin. The Goldman Warehouse, Miami 2005.
  • Jules Olitski. The Late Paintings. A celebration. Essay by Norman L. Kleeblatt. Knoedler & Co, New York 2007.
  • Jules Olitski. An inside view. A Survey of Prints 1954-2007. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont 2008.

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personal data
SURNAME Olitski, Jules
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Snowsk
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 2007
Place of death new York