Louis Lozowick (December 10, 1892 – September 9, 1973) was a painter and a printmaker. He was born in Russian Empire (Ludvinovka, Ukraine), came to United States in 1906, and died in New Jersey in 1973. He is recognized as an Art Deco and Precisionist artist, and mainly produced streamline, urban-inspired monochromatic lithographs in a career that spanned 50 years.
Lozowick attended Kiev Art School from 1904-1906 before emigration to USA, where h...
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Louis Lozowick (December 10, 1892 – September 9, 1973) was a painter and a printmaker. He was born in Russian Empire (Ludvinovka, Ukraine), came to United States in 1906, and died in New Jersey in 1973. He is recognized as an Art Deco and Precisionist artist, and mainly produced streamline, urban-inspired monochromatic lithographs in a career that spanned 50 years.
Lozowick attended Kiev Art School from 1904-1906 before emigration to USA, where he continued the studies in National Academy of Design (New York) and Ohio State University. From 1919 to 1924 Louis lived and traveled throughout Europe, spending most of his time in Paris, Berlin and Moscow. In mid-1920-s he started making his first lithographs.
By 1926, when he joined the editorial board of the left-wing journal, New Masses, he was well-versed in current artistic developments in Europe, such as Constructivism and de Stijl. These hard-edged, linear styles, evident in New York (Brooklyn Bridge), suggest the possibility of an...
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