Susan Rothenberg

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Susan Rothenberg (born January 20, 1945 in Buffalo , New York ; † May 18, 2020 in Galisteo , New Mexico ) was an American painter and draftsman .

Live and act

Susan Rothenberg grew up in a typical American middle-class family as the daughter of Leonard and Adele Rothenberg, together with a brother. Her early years were "uneventful". After an apprenticeship as a sculptor, Rothenberg studied from 1962 at the Fine Arts School of Cornell University in Ithaca . She completed her studies in 1967 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA). In 1965 she temporarily lived in Greece. In 1971 she married the sculptor George Trakas , from whom she separated in 1979.

At the end of the 1970s, Rothenberg was one of the American artists who found expressive, figurative painting. As early as 1979 she took part in an exhibition entitled "New Image Painting" at the Whitney Museum of American Art . In her works, executed in a reduced color spectrum in acrylic paints, she presented animal motifs reminiscent of prehistoric cave paintings. The first horse representations, outlined with powerful, strong brushstrokes, began as early as 1973. Rothenberg took part in the 1980 Venice Biennale ; In 1982 she was the only female artist in the Zeitgeist exhibition in Berlin, alongside 45 men.

From the mid-1990s, she retained her figurative vocabulary of forms, but turned to an amorphous, ambiguous and clear definition avoiding oil painting , which focuses on people.

In 1989 she married the sculptor and installation artist Bruce Nauman and founded a ranch with him in the Galisteo Basin in New Mexico . She died in May 2020 at the age of 75.

Exhibitions

  • 2009: Moving in Place , Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth , Fort Worth, Texas; (2010 also Miami Art Museum)
  • 1992: documenta 9 , Kassel
  • 1981: Susan Rothenberg , Kunsthalle Basel (also: Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main)
  • 1980: 39th Biennale di Venezia, Venice
  • 1975: Three Large Paintings , 112 Greene Street Gallery, New York

Awards

literature

  • Ingo F. Walther: Lexicon of Artists. In: Karl Ruhberg et al.: Art of the 20th Century. Taschen, Cologne, 1998, ISBN 3-8228-8576-2 , p. 797 f.
  • Joan Simon: Susan Rothenberg. Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1991, ISBN 978-0-8109-3753-6 , p. 9.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Randy Kennedy: Susan Rothenberg, Acclaimed Figurative Painter, Dies at 75. In: The New York Times . May 21, 2020, accessed on May 23, 2020 .
  2. Grace Glueck: Susan Rothenberg. In: NYTimes.com . July 22, 1984, accessed May 20, 2020 .
  3. Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 20, 2019 .
  4. ^ Living Academicians “R” / Rothenberg, Susan, NA 2005. In: nationalacademy.org. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on May 20, 2020 (English).