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Biography
American painter who studied at the Art Students League in New York between 1920 and 1921 and at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiére in Paris, in the following year. In 1923, he enrolled at the Parsons School of Design and Cooper Union Institute. He held his first one-man show in 1930 and, in 1935, he was a founder member of the Expressionist group The Ten, and exhibited his work with them until 1940. The letter he sent, with Rothko, to the New York Times laid the bases for the creation of Abstract Expressionism. From 1940 onwards, he produced Pictographs, symbolic drawings close to the magic realist style. In 1957, he reduced his pictorial language to the absolute minimum elements such as spheres and blots swaying in suspended tension. In 1959, he took part in Documenta 2, in Kassel. In 1963, he received the first prize at the Sao Paulo Biennale and, in 1974, he was a member of the New York Art Commission. His condensed pictorial language connected him to the Abstract Expressionists like Mark Rothko and Franz Kline.
Exhibitions
Adolph Gottlieb - A Retrospective Wetterling Gallery, Sweden 01-01-1989 ~ 31-12-1989
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999 Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 27-01-2000 ~ 27-08-2000
Nova Apresentação da Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 08-11-1999 ~ 01-03-2000
Durante o Fim - Rui Chafes Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 15-10-2000 ~ 14-01-2001
Berardo Museum Opening Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 25-06-2007 ~ 09-09-2007
“Intuição e a Estrutura” – De Torres Garcia a Vieira da Silva (1929-1949) Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 04-12-2008 ~ 15-02-2009
Bibliography
Adolph Gottlieb – A Retrospective, 1989 Published by Wetterling Gallery
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 972817652X
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