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Abstract expressionism
Abstract expressionism was an American post-World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris.
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Jackson Pollock
Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a...
Date of birth:
- Jan 28, 1912
Date of death:
- Aug 11, 1956 (age 44 years)
Jasper Johns
Jasper Johns, Jr. (born May 15, 1930 in Augusta, Georgia, United States) is an American contemporary artist who works primarily in painting and printmaking. He is represented by the Matthew Marks Gallery.
Jasper Johns grew up in Allendale, South...
Date of birth:
- May 15, 1930 (age 79 years)
Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko, born Marcus Rothkowitz (Latvian: Marks Rotko; September 25, 1903–February 25, 1970), was a Latvian-born American painter and printmaker. He is classified as an abstract expressionist, although he himself rejected this label, and even...
Date of birth:
- Sep 25, 1903
Date of death:
- Feb 25, 1970 (age 66 years)
Clyfford Still
Clyfford Still (November 30, 1904 – June 23, 1980) was an American painter, and one of the leading figures of Abstract Expressionism.
Clyfford Still was a leader in the first generation of Abstract Expressionists who developed a new, powerful...
Date of birth:
- Nov 30, 1904
Date of death:
- Jun 23, 1980 (age 75 years)
Frank Stella
Frank Stella (born May 12, 1936) is an American painter and printmaker. He is a significant figure in minimalism and post-painterly abstraction.
He was born in Malden, Massachusetts. After attending high school at Phillips Academy in Andover,...
Date of birth:
- May 12, 1936 (age 73 years)
Agnes Martin
Agnes Martin (March 22, 1912 – December 16, 2004) was a Canadian-American painter, often referred to as a minimalist; Martin considered herself an abstract expressionist.
She was born in Macklin, Saskatchewan, grew up in Vancouver, and moved to the...
Date of birth:
- Mar 22, 1912
Date of death:
- Dec 16, 2004 1:00pm (age 92 years)
Clement Greenberg
Clement Greenberg (January 16, 1909 – May 7, 1994) was an influential American art critic closely associated with Modern art in the United States. In particular, he promoted the abstract expressionist movement and was among the first critics to...
Date of birth:
- Jan 16, 1909
Date of death:
- May 7, 1994 (age 85 years)
Helen Frankenthaler
Helen Frankenthaler (born December 12, 1928) is an American Abstract Expressionist painter. She is an important and major contributor to the history of postwar American painting. Having exhibited her work in six decades she has spanned several...
Date of birth:
- Dec 12, 1928 (age 81 years)
Barnett Newman
Barnett Newman (January 29 1905 – July 4 1970) was an American artist. He is seen as one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters.
Newman was born in New York City, the son of Russian Jewish...
Date of birth:
- Jan 29, 1905
Date of death:
- Jul 4, 1970 (age 65 years)
Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg (born Milton Ernst Rauschenberg; (October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008) was an American artist who came to prominence in the 1950s transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. Rauschenberg is perhaps most famous for his ...
Date of birth:
- Oct 22, 1925
Date of death:
- May 12, 2008 (age 82 years)
Fairfield Porter
Fairfield Porter (June 10, 1907 - September 18, 1975) was an American painter and art critic. He was the brother of photographer Eliot Porter and the brother-in-law of federal Reclamation Commissioner Michael W. Straus.
Though educated at Harvard,...
Date of birth:
- Jun 10, 1907
Date of death:
- Sep 18, 1975 (age 68 years)
Mark Tobey
Mark George Tobey (December 11, 1890 – April 24, 1976) was an American abstract expressionist painter, born in Centerville, Wisconsin. Widely recognized throughout the United States and Europe, Tobey is the most noted among the "mystical painters of...
Date of birth:
- Dec 11, 1890
Date of death:
- Apr 24, 1976 (age 85 years)
Jimmy Ernst
Jimmy Ernst (born Hans-Ulrich Ernst) (June 24, 1920 - February 6, 1984) was an American painter born in Germany.
He was the son of surrealist painter Max Ernst and Luise Straus. When he was just two years old, his parents divorced, Jimmy staying...
Date of birth:
- Jun 24, 1920
Date of death:
- Feb 6, 1984 (age 63 years)
Lee Krasner
Lee Krasner (October 27, 1908 — June 19, 1984) was an influential abstract expressionist painter in the second half of the 20th century. On October 25th 1945, she married artist Jackson Pollock, who was also influential in the Abstract Expressionism...
Date of birth:
- Oct 27, 1908
Date of death:
- Jun 19, 1984 (age 75 years)
Jack Tworkov
Jack Tworkov (1900 – 1982) was a Polish born American abstract expressionist painter.
He was born in Biała Podlaska, Russian Empire and immigrated to the United States in 1913 with his mother and younger sister who would later become known as Janice...
Date of birth:
- 1900
Date of death:
- 1982 (age 82 years)
Franz Kline
Franz Kline (May 23, 1910 – May 13, 1962) was an American painter mainly associated with the Abstract Expressionist painters who were centered, geographically, around New York, and temporally, in the 1940s and 1950s; but not limited to that setting....
Date of birth:
- May 23, 1910
Date of death:
- May 13, 1962 (age 52 years)
Richard Diebenkorn
Richard Diebenkorn (April 22, 1922 – March 30, 1993) was a well-known 20th century American painter. His early work is associated with Abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. His later work (best known as...
Date of birth:
- Apr 22, 1922
Date of death:
- Mar 30, 1993 (age 70 years)
Elaine de Kooning
Elaine Marie de Kooning (March 12, 1918 - February 1, 1989), was an abstract expressionist painter and a vibrant figure in the New York School. She was born Elaine Marie Fried in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
During her youth, her artistic sensibility...
Date of birth:
- Mar 12, 1918
Date of death:
- Feb 1, 1989 (age 70 years)
Morris Louis
Morris Louis (Morris Louis Bernstein) (November 28, 1912 - September 7, 1962) is a United States abstract expressionist painter, one of the many such painters to emerge in the 1950s. From 1929 to 1933, he studied at the Maryland Institute of Fine...
Date of birth:
- Nov 28, 1912
Date of death:
- Sep 7, 1962 (age 49 years)
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson (born Leah Berliawsky, September 23, 1899, Kiev, Czarist Russia - d. April 17, 1988, New York, New York) was a Russian-born American artist.
Nevelson is known for her abstract expressionist “crates” grouped together to...
Date of birth:
- 1900
Date of death:
- 1988 (age 88 years)
Ad Reinhardt
Adolph Frederick Reinhardt ("Ad" Reinhardt) (December 24, 1913 – August 30, 1967) was an Abstract painter active in New York beginning in the 1930s and continuing through the 1960s. He was a member of the American Abstract Artists and was a part of...
Date of birth:
- Dec 24, 1913
Date of death:
- Aug 30, 1967 (age 53 years)
John Chamberlain
John Angus Chamberlain (born April 16, 1927) is an American sculptor.
Born in Rochester, Indiana, John Chamberlain spent much of his youth in Chicago. After serving in the navy from 1943 to 1946, he attended the Art Institute of Chicago (1951–52)...
Date of birth:
- Apr 16, 1927 (age 82 years)
Ibram Lassaw
Ibram Lassaw (1913-2003) is an American sculptor, known for nonobjective construction in brazed metals.
Lassaw was born in Alexandria, Egypt, of Russian émigré parents, he went to the U.S. in 1921. His family settled in Brooklyn, New York. He became...
Date of birth:
- 1913
Date of death:
- 2003 (age 90 years)
Milton Resnick
Milton Resnick (January 7, 1917 - March 12, 2004) was a major abstract expressionist painter and teacher known for his mystical, abstract and figurative paintings. Born in Bratslav, Russia, he emigrated to the United States in 1922.
Milton Resnick...
Date of birth:
- Jan 7, 1917
Date of death:
- Mar 12, 2004 (age 87 years)
Adolph Gottlieb
Adolph Gottlieb (March 14, 1903 - March 4, 1974) was an American abstract expressionist painter, sculptor and graphic artist.
Gottlieb was born in New York to Jewish parents. From 1920-1921 he studied at the Art Students League of New York, after...
Date of birth:
- Mar 14, 1903
Date of death:
- Mar 4, 1974 (age 71 years)
Helen Berman
Helen Berman (April 6, 1936) is a Dutch-Israeli visual artist. She was a textile designer in the 1960s and has been a painter and occasionally an art educator since the 1970s. She is well known in Israel and has exhibited also in Germany and the...
Date of birth:
- Apr 6, 1936 (age 73 years)
Peter Voulkos
Peter Voulkos (January 29, 1924 – 2002) popular name of Panagiotis Voulkos, was an American artist of Greek descent. He is known for his Abstract Expressionist ceramic sculptures, which crossed the traditional divide between ceramic crafts and fine...
Date of birth:
- Jan 29, 1924
Date of death:
- 2002 (age 77 years)
David Smith
David Roland Smith (March 9, 1906 - May 23, 1965) was an American Abstract Expressionist sculptor best known for creating large steel abstract geometric sculptures.
Born in Decatur, Indiana on March 9, 1906, Smith grew up in Paulding, Ohio, where...
Date of birth:
- Mar 9, 1906
Date of death:
- May 23, 1965 (age 59 years)
Robert De Niro, Sr.
Robert Mario De Niro, Sr. (January 17, 1922 – May 3, 1993) was an American abstract expressionist painter and the father of actor Robert De Niro.
Robert De Niro, Sr., was born in Syracuse, New York, to an Italian American father, Henry Martin De...
Date of birth:
- Jan 17, 1922
Date of death:
- May 3, 1993 (age 71 years)
Hans Hofmann
Hans Hofmann (March 21, 1880 – February 17, 1966) was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter. He was born in Weißenburg, Bavaria on March 21, 1880 the son of Theodor and Franziska Hofmann. In 1932 he immigrated to the United States,...
Date of birth:
- Mar 21, 1880
Date of death:
- Feb 17, 1966 (age 85 years)
Philip Guston
Philip Guston (June 27, 1913 – June 7, 1980) was a notable painter and printmaker in the New York School, which included many of the Abstract expressionists, such as Jackson Pollock and Willem De Kooning. In the late 1960s Guston helped to lead a...
Date of birth:
- Jun 27, 1913
Date of death:
- Jun 7, 1980 (age 66 years)
Paul Jenkins
Paul Jenkins (born 1923) is a American abstract expressionist painter.
He was born in Kansas City, Missouri. As a boy his family moved to Struthers, Ohio where they ran the local newspaper. In 1948, he moved to New York City where, on the G.I. Bill,...
Date of birth:
- 1923 (age 87 years)
James Brooks
James Brooks (October 18, 1906 – March 9, 1992) was an American muralist, abstract painter and winner of the Logan Medal of the Arts. Brooks was a friend of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner on Eastern Long Island. In 1947 he married artist Charlotte...
Date of birth:
- Oct 18, 1906
Date of death:
- Mar 9, 1992 (age 85 years)
Morris Graves
Morris Cole Graves (August 28, 1910 – May 5, 2001) was an American expressionist painter. Along with Guy Anderson, Kenneth Callahan, William Cumming, and Mark Tobey, he founded the Northwest School. Graves was also a mystic.
Born the sixth son of a...
Date of birth:
- Aug 28, 1910
Date of death:
- May 5, 2001 (age 90 years)
Al Held
Al Held (October 12, 1928 – July 27, 2005) was an American Abstract expressionist painter. He was particularly well known for his large scale Hard-edge paintings.
Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1928, Held showed no interest in art until leaving the...
Date of birth:
- Oct 12, 1928
Date of death:
- Jul 27, 2005 (age 76 years)
Joan Mitchell
Joan Mitchell (February 12, 1925 - October 30, 1992) was a ‘Second Generation’ Abstract Expressionist painter. Along with Lee Krasner, Grace Hartigan, and Helen Frankenthaler she was one of her era's few female painters to gain critical and public...
Date of birth:
- Feb 12, 1925
Date of death:
- Oct 30, 1992 (age 67 years)
Ronnie Landfield
Ronnie Landfield (born January 9, 1947 in The Bronx, New York) is an American abstract painter. During his early career from the mid-1960s through the 1970s his paintings were associated with Lyrical Abstraction, (related to Postminimalism, Color...
Date of birth:
- Jan 9, 1947 (age 62 years)
Conrad Marca-Relli
Conrad Marca-Relli (born Corrado Marcarelli; June 5, 1913 – August 29, 2000) was an American artist who belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized...
Date of birth:
- Jun 5, 1913
Date of death:
- Aug 29, 2000 (age 87 years)
Norman Bluhm
Norman Bluhm (March 28, 1921-February 3, 1999), was an American painter classified as an abstract expressionist, and as an action painter. His paintings are also related to Tachisme and Lyrical Abstraction.
He was born on March 28, 1921 in Chicago,...
Date of birth:
- Mar 28, 1921
Date of death:
- Feb 3, 1999 (age 77 years)
Larry Zox
Lawrence "Larry" Zox (May 31, 1937 – December 16, 2006) was an American painter and printmaker who is classified as an Abstract expressionist, Color Field painter and a Lyrical Abstractionist, although he did not readily use those categories for his...
Date of birth:
- May 31, 1937
Date of death:
- Dec 16, 2006 (age 69 years)
Caniglia
Jeremy Caniglia (1970- ) is an American figurative painter and illustrator, primarily in fantasy and horror genres. He has done book and magazine illustration, conceptual artwork, book and album covers, and comic books, and his work is in several...
Date of birth:
- Jul 13, 1970 (age 39 years)
Ronald Davis
Ronald Davis (a.k.a. Ron Davis), born 1937, is an American painter whose work is associated with Geometric abstraction, Abstract Illusionism, Lyrical Abstraction, Hard-edge painting, Shaped canvas painting, Color field painting, and 3D Computer...
Date of birth:
- 1937 (age 73 years)
Jules Olitski
Jules Olitski (March 27, 1922 – February 4, 2007) was an American abstract painter, printmaker, and sculptor.
Olitski was born Jevel Demikovski in Snovsk, in the Russian SFSR (now Schors, Ukraine), a few months after his father, a commissar, was...
Date of birth:
- Mar 27, 1922
Date of death:
- Feb 4, 2007 (age 84 years)
Dan Christensen
Dan Christensen, the American abstract painter, was born in Cozad, Nebraska on October 6, 1942, he died in Easthampton, New York on January 20, 2007. He is best known for paintings that relate to Lyrical Abstraction, Color field painting and...
Date of birth:
- Oct 6, 1942
Date of death:
- 2007 (age 64 years)
Theodoros Stamos
Theodoros Stamos (Greek: Θεόδωρος Στάμος), (December 31, 1922 – February 2, 1997) was a Greek American artist. He is one of the youngest painters of the original group of abstract expressionist painters (the so-called "Irascibles"), which included...
Date of birth:
- Dec 31, 1922
Date of death:
- Feb 2, 1997 (age 74 years)
Kazuo Nakamura
Kazuo Nakamura was a Japanese-Canadian painter and sculptor (born Vancouver October 13, 1926; died Toronto April 9, 2002) and a founding member of the Toronto-based Painters Eleven group in the 1950s.
Kazuo Nakamura was born in Vancouver, British...
Date of birth:
- Oct 13, 1926
Date of death:
- Apr 9, 2002 (age 75 years)
Vasudeo S. Gaitonde
Vasudeo S. Gaitonde (1924-2001) was regarded as India's foremost abstract artist. He received Padma Shri Award in 1971.
Gaitonde was born in Maharashtra. He received his diploma from the Sir J. J. School of Art in 1948
He died in 2001. Vasudev S....
Date of birth:
- 1924
Date of death:
- 2001 (age 77 years)
Knox Martin
Knox Martin is an American painter, sculptor and muralist.
Born in 1923 in Barranquilla, Colombia, he studied at the Art Students League of New York from 1946 till 1950. He is one of the leading members of New York School - a group of artists and...
Date of birth:
- 1923 (age 87 years)
Jon Schueler
Jon Schueler (September 12, 1916–August 5, 1992) was an American artist.
Schueler was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He first had the desire to become a writer, and after he acquired his Masters degree at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1940,...
Date of birth:
- Sep 12, 1916
Date of death:
- Aug 5, 1992 (age 75 years)
Vincent Pepi
Vincent Pepi (born 1926 in Boston) is an abstract expressionist painter associated with the New York School. His contribution to American art includes some of the foremost examples of action painting, produced consistently over the course of the...
Date of birth:
- 1926 (age 84 years)
Hans Burkhardt
Hans Gustav Burkhardt (December 20, 1904 – April 22, 1994) was a Swiss American abstract expressionist. In 1924 he emigrated from Basel, Switzerland to New York. From 1925 to 1928 he attended the Cooper Union School of the Arts. He shared Arshile...
Date of birth:
- Dec 20, 1904
Date of death:
- Apr 22, 1994 (age 89 years)
Hedda Sterne
Hedda Sterne (born August 4, 1910), born in Bucharest, Romania, is an artist best remembered as the only woman in a group of Abstract Expressionists known as "The Irascibles" which consisted of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman,...
Date of birth:
- Aug 4, 1910 (age 99 years)
Emerson Woelffer
Emerson Woelffer (July 27, 1914 - February 2, 2003) was a prominent abstract expressionism artist and painter born in Chicago, Illinois. He studied Education at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago between 1935 and 1937. In 1938 he joined the...
Date of birth:
- Jul 27, 1914
Date of death:
- Feb 2, 2003 (age 88 years)
Nicholas Hondrogen
Nicholas Hondrogen (January 05, 1952 – February 28, 2007) was an American painter, photographer, sculptor, and filmmaker.
Nicholas John Hondrogen, Jr. was born in Concord, New Hampshire in 1952, the oldest of five children. He grew up in New...
Date of birth:
- Jan 5, 1952
Date of death:
- Feb 28, 2007 (age 55 years)
Peter Young
Peter Young, is an American painter who was born in Pittsburgh, Pa, January 2, 1940. He is primarily known for his abstract paintings that have been widely exhibited in the United States and in Europe since the 1960s. His work is associated with...
Date of birth:
- 1940 (age 70 years)
Verika
Verika (Born in Pretoria, December 16, 1979) is an South African, abstract expressionist painter focusing on femininity and sensuality.
She has Fine Art diploma, majoring in painting and mixed media at Ruth Prowse School of Art.
Her art can...
Date of birth:
- Dec 16, 1979 (age 30 years)
Norman Lewis
Norman W. Lewis (23 July 1909 – 27 August 1979) was an award-winning African-American painter, scholar, and teacher. He is associated with Abstract Expressionism. Lewis was African-American, of Caribbean descent.
Norman W. Lewis was born in Harlem,...
Date of birth:
- Jul 23, 1909
Date of death:
- Aug 27, 1979 (age 70 years)
Alfonso A. Ossorio
Alfonso A. Ossorio (1916-1990) was an abstract expressionist artist who was born in Manila in 1916 to wealthy Filipino parents from the province of Negros Occidental. His heritage was Hispanic, Filipino, and Chinese. Between the ages of eight and...
Date of birth:
- 1916
Date of death:
- 1990 (age 74 years)
Michael Goldberg
Michael Goldberg (1924-12-24 – 2007-12-31) was an American abstract expressionist painter and teacher known for his gestural action paintings, abstractions and still-life paintings. His work was recently seen in September 2007 in a solo exhibition...
Date of birth:
- Dec 24, 1924
Date of death:
- 2007 (age 82 years)
Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 – July 16, 1991) was an American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker. He was one of the youngest of the New York School (a phrase he coined), which also included Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de...
Date of birth:
- Jan 24, 1915
Date of death:
- Jul 16, 1991 (age 76 years)
