Larry Rivers
Larry Rivers (* as Yitzhok Loiza Grossberg on August 17, 1923 in New York City ; † August 14, 2002 there ) was an American musician and artist. He is considered one of the founding fathers of Pop Art .
Life
Rivers was born in the Bronx as Yitzhok Loiza Grossberg . As a jazz saxophonist he performed in New York City from 1940 to 1945 and took his stage name Larry Rivers during this time . He studied at the Juilliard School of Music from 1945 to 1946.
His interest in painting awoke in 1945. He studied from 1947 to 1948 at the Hans Hofmann School and then from 1949 to 1951 at New York University , where he was a student of William Baziotes .
Rivers had been married to Augusta Berger since 1945, with whom he had the biological son Steven and the adopted child Joseph. After divorcing Augusta, Rivers married Clarice Price in 1961. The two daughters Emma and Gwene emerged from this marriage. This marriage also ended in divorce in 1967. His later partner was the painter Daria Deshuk, with whom he had the son Sam Deshuk Rivers. At the time of his death in 2002, he was living with the New York poet Jeni Olin.
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Rivers felt connected to abstract expressionism early on, but began figurative painting in the late 1940s. From the beginning of the 1950s he was also active as a sculptor and made sculptures from plaster of paris, metal and cement.
The artistic preoccupation in assemblages with mass-produced items such as packaging or banknotes from the mid-1950s made Rivers a pioneer of Pop Art. He belonged to the New York School .
From 1961 to 1962 Rivers stayed in Paris , where it came to collaboration with Jean Tinguely ; In 1967 Howard Kanovitz was his collaboration partner in London . In the 1960s he expanded his range of artistic expression by incorporating elements made of wood or cardboard into his works or by using electric light.
In 1964 Larry Rivers took part in documenta III in Kassel and in 1968 also in the 4th documenta .
In the 1970s, Larry Rivers worked with aerosols and airbrushes, and turned to video and film.
In 1973 Wolfgang Niedecken was Rivers' assistant as a student and called him "Polarstern" for his artistic development.
In 1977 Larry Rivers took part in documenta 6 in Kassel . He was elected a full member ( NA ) of the National Academy of Design in New York in 1994 . Since 1974 he was an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters .
Individual evidence
- ^ "For 'ne Moment", Wolfgang Niedecken, autobiography, p. 22 ff
- ↑ nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "R" / Rivers, Larry NA 1994 ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 13, 2015)
- ↑ Members: Larry Rivers. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 22, 2019 .
Web links
- Obituary in The New York Times
- Literature by and about Larry Rivers in the catalog of the German National Library
- Materials by and about Larry Rivers in the documenta archive
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rivers, Larry |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grossberg, Yitzhok Loiza (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American musician and pop art artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th August 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 14, 2002 |
| Place of death | New York City |