Virginia Admiral
Virginia Holton Admiral , married Virginia De Niro (born February 4, 1915 in The Dalles , Oregon , † July 27, 2000 in New York City , New York ) was an American painter and poet .
Life
Admiral was born in Oregon in 1915 to Alice Caroline (nee Groman ) and Donald Admiral.
She studied at the University of California , where she was particularly noticeable for her involvement in left-wing student groups, and later at the Art Institute of Chicago with Hans Hofmann . During her work for the Federal Art Project in Oakland, California, she made close contacts with the San Francisco poet scene from 1938 onwards . She briefly edited the literary magazine Epitaph with the poet Robert Duncan .
Through Duncan, Admiral came into contact with the writer Anaïs Nin , who had a strong influence on her and for whom she temporarily worked as a typist. From 1940/41 Admiral studied painting at the New York Hofmann School. There she met the painter Robert De Niro, Sr. know. From the 1942 marriage with De Niro, the son Robert De Niro was born in 1943 . In 1945 the marriage was divorced. In the 2014 HBO documentary Remembering the Artist Robert De Niro Sr. , his son quotes extensively from his father's personal records, which include, among other things, that De Niro Sr. left his wife because he became aware of his homosexuality .
In 1942 Admiral was able to exhibit her works for the first time in the Springs Salon for Young Artists at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century Gallery in Manhattan; In 1946 she had a solo exhibition in the same place. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art , the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.
Admiral died in New York City at the age of 85. She left behind her son, younger sister Eleanor, and five grandchildren.
Web links
- Virginia Admiral papers, (ca.1947–1980) from the Smithsonian Archives of American Art
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Shawn Levy: Robert de Niro: One life . Fischer Krüger, 2015, ISBN 978-3810524072 , p. 20 ff.
- ↑ a b c d e f g Virginia Admiral, 85, Painter and Writer . In: The New York Times, August 15, 2000.
- ↑ Sundance: Robert De Niro Screens HBO Doc on His Late Father, Bradley Cooper Attends at hollywoodreporter.com, accessed June 15, 2014
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| SURNAME | Admiral, Virginia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 4, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | The Dalles , Oregon , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 27, 2000 |
| Place of death | New York City , New York , United States |