Richard Anuszkiewicz

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Richard Anuszkiewicz (born May 23, 1930 in Erie , Pennsylvania , USA ; † May 19, 2020 in Englewood , New Jersey ) was an American painter and graphic artist . He was a pioneer of Op Art and was considered one of its most important exponents. Anuszkiewicz lived and worked in New York City for a long time .

life and work

Richard Anuszkiewicz studied from 1948 to 1953 at the Cleveland Institute of Art in Cleveland , Ohio ( Bachelor of Fine Arts ) and then from 1953 to 1955 at the Yale University School of Art and Architecture in New Haven , Connecticut under Josef Albers , where he received his Master of Fine Arts .

In 1960 Anuszkiewicz had his first solo exhibition at The Contemporaries gallery in New York. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York acquired one of his paintings back then. He participated in the Geometric Abstraction in America exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art , New York (1962) and Americans in 1963 at MoMA (1963). The Life magazine called him in the preview of the large op art exhibition The Responsive Eye at the MoMA (1965) "one of the new Wizard of Op". Anuszkiewicz was a participant in the Venice Biennale , the Florence Biennale and in 1968 also the 4th documenta in Kassel .

His works are part of the permanent collections of international museums, including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery , Buffalo, the Art Institute of Chicago , the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Hokkaidō Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

In his art, Anuszkiewicz dealt with the optical changes that occur when different colors with high intensity and the same geometric configurations appear. Most of his works are visual investigations of formal structure and color effects. Anuszkiewicz also continued to develop studies in his art, which Josef Albers began, for example, in his series Hommage to the Square , where he experimented with juxtaposing colors.

In 1994 Richard Anuszkiewicz was elected a member (NA) of the National Academy , New York. He died in May 2020, four days before his 90th birthday.

Solo exhibitions

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jillian Steinhauer: Richard Anuszkiewicz, Whose Op Art Caught Eyes in the '60s, Dies at 89 , nytimes.com, May 25, 2020, accessed May 26, 2020.
  2. ^ "One of the new wizards of Op" (p. 133): next to Bridget Riley , Larry Poons , Julian Stanczak, Tadasky (Tadasuke Kuwayama) and François Morellet . Victor Vasarely was counted among the old masters Josef Albers and Marcel Duchamp . Unsigned, under the title Op Art in: Life , Vol. 57, No. 24, December 11, 1964, pp. 132-140. See: Warren R. Young: Bringing Chaos out of Order , pp. 138, 140.
  3. ^ Nationalacademy.org: Living Academicians. Anuszkiewicz, Richard (accessed March 15, 2015)

Literature and Sources

  • David Madden and Nicholas Spike. Richard Anuszkiewicz: Catalog Raisonné , Florence: Centro Di Edizioni, 2010, www.centrodi.it .
  • Thomas Buchsteiner and Ingrid Mossinger (eds.). Anuszkiewicz Op Art , Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag / Hatje Cantz Publishers, 1997, ISBN 9783775706711 , www.hatjecantz.de .
  • Getulio Alviani, Margaret A. Miller, Giancarlo Pauletto. Richard Anuszkiewicz: Opere 1961–1987 , Pordenone: Centro Culturale Casa A. Zanussi, 1988.
  • Karl Lunde and Richard Anuszkiewicz. Anuszkiewicz . New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1977, ISBN 0-8109-0363-6 .
  • Neil K. Rector, Floyd Ratliff, Sanford Wurmfeld. Color Function Painting: The Art of Josef Albers, Julian Stanczak and Richard Anuszkiewicz . Winston-Salem (NC): Wake Forest University Fine Arts Gallery, 1996.
  • Exhibition catalog for the IV. Documenta: IV. Documenta. International exhibition ; Catalog: Volume 1: (Painting and Sculpture); Volume 2: (Graphics / Objects); Kassel 1968.
  • Kimpel, Harald / Stengel, Karin: documenta IV 1968 International Exhibition - A Photographic Reconstruction (series of publications from the documenta archive); Bremen 2007, ISBN 978-3-86108-524-9 .
  • Marshall N. Price. "Anuszkiewicz, Richard", in: The Abstract Impulse: fifty years of abstraction at the National Academy, 1956-2006 , New York: National Academy Museum, 2007, p. 34.
  • Jeanne Kolva. "Anuszkiewicz, Richard", in: Encyclopedia of New Jersey , Maxine N. Lurie and Marc Mappen (eds.), Rutgers University Press, 2004, p. 30.

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personal data
SURNAME Anuszkiewicz, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter and printmaker
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Erie , Pennsylvania , United States
DATE OF DEATH 19th May 2020
Place of death Englewood, New Jersey