Morris Louis
Morris Louis (born November 28, 1912 in Baltimore , Maryland , † September 7, 1962 in Washington, DC ; actually Morris Louis Bernstein ) was an American painter . His works are an important example of color field painting .
Life
Louis studied at the Maryland Institute of Fine and Applied Arts in Baltimore from 1928 to 1933. After a temporary move to New York in 1936 he took part in workshops with David Alfaro Siqueiros , called himself Morris Louis from 1938 and moved back to his native city in 1940. In 1952 he accepted a position as a lecturer at the Washington Workshop Center of Arts. At this time he also met Kenneth Noland . The two artists became the protagonists of the Washington School. Through the mediation of art critic Clement Greenberg , Morris Louis met Helen Frankenthaler , Franz Kline and Jackson Pollock . Louis destroyed a large part of his previous work and developed his own style from 1953 to 1961 as a reclusive painter based on the methods of Frankenthaler and Pollock.
He was posthumously represented as an artist with works at the documenta III in Kassel in 1964 and also at the 4th documenta in 1968.
literature
- John Elderfield: Morris Louis . The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1986, ISBN 0-87070-419-2 .
- Serge Lemoine (Ed.): Morris Louis . Musée de Grenoble / Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-7118-3435-2 .
- Volker Rattemeyer (ed.): The spiritual in art. From the Blue Rider to Abstract Expressionism . Museum Wiesbaden , Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-89258-088-1 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Morris Louis in the catalog of the German National Library
- Materials by and about Morris Louis in the documenta archive
- Morris Louis on kunstaspekte.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Louis, Morris |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bernstein, Morris Louis (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 28, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baltimore |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 7, 1962 |
| Place of death | Washington, DC |