Peter Alexander (painter)

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Peter Alexander (2003) in front of his work "Blue"

Peter Alexander (born February 27, 1939 in Los Angeles , California - † May 26, 2020 there ) was an American painter , graphic artist and architect .

life and work

Peter Alexander studied at the University of Pennsylvania from 1957 to 1960 . From 1960 to 1962 he attended the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London . He continued his studies from 1962 to 1963 at the University of California at Berkeley , from 1963 to 1964 at the University of Southern California at Los Angeles and from 1964 to 1965 at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Peter Alexander was influenced as a painter by the Light and Space Movement in California. The main theme of his painting was the play of light and the light effects on and above the water and the clouds. In his pictures he processed underwater fantasies, shimmering seascapes and dark clouds with sunlight or lightning.

He had his first solo exhibition in 1968 at the Robert Elkon Gallery in New York City . In 1972 he participated in Documenta 5 in Kassel in the Idea + Idea / Light department. Alexander was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Prize.

His works belong to the collections of major museums, including the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC , the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University in Cambridge, the Fort Worth Art Museum, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Peter Alexander last lived in Santa Monica, California .

Literature and Sources

  • Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today ; Catalog (as a file folder) Volume 1: (Material); Volume 2: (list of exhibits); Kassel 1972
  • documenta archive (ed.); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972 ; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Alexander, who created ethereal worlds out of resin, dies at 81 , latimes.com, accessed on May 29, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Alexander, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter, sculptor, and printmaker
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California, USA
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 2020
Place of death Los Angeles , California, USA