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Dina Babbitt
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Dinah Gottliebova-Babbit (formerly known as Dinah Gottliebova), born January 21, 1923 in Brno, Czechoslovakia, a survivor of the Holocaust. She survived Auschwitz because she was an artist and was able to paint portraits. Dr. Mengele had her paint portraits of his gypsy victims before sending them to the gas chambers. Before the project was finished, which would have meant the end of Dinah's life, too, the war ended. Dinah later met and married the lead animator for Disney's 'Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs' which brought her to the U.S. She is now 73 years old and struggling with the Polish Govt. to have her paintings of the Gypsies returned to her.
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Frank Auerbach
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Frank Helmut Auerbach (Born: April 29, 1931) is a German-born British painter. His work typically portrays either one of a small group of mainly female models, or scenes around London, especially Camden Town.
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Frida Kahlo
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Frida Kahlo (July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954) was a Mexican painter, who has achieved great international popularity. She painted using vibrant colors in a style that was influenced by indigenous cultures of Mexico as well as European influences that include Realism, Symbolism, and Surrealism. Many of her works are self-portraits that symbolically express her own pain. Kahlo was married to and influenced by the Mexican/Spanish muralist Diego Rivera and shared his Communist views. Although she has long been recognized as an important painter, public awareness of her work has become more widespread since the 1970s. Her "Blue" house in Coyoacán, Mexico City is a popular museum, donated by Diego Rivera after his death in 1957.
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Helen Frankenthaler
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Helen Frankenthaler (Born: December 12, 1928) is an American post-painterly abstraction artist. Born in New York City, she was influenced by Jackson Pollock's paintings and by Clement Greenberg with whom she also was involved in the 1946-1960 Abstract Art Movement. She was the youngest daughter of a justice on the New York State Supreme Court. She studied at the Dalton School under Rufino Tamayo and also at Bennington College in Vermont. She later married fellow artist Robert Motherwell.
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Carlo Levi
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Carlo Levi (November 29, 1902 – January 4, 1975) was an Italian-Jewish painter, writer, activist, anti-fascist, and doctor.
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Ernst Josephson
Saturday, Jan 01, 2000, 12:00am
Ernst Josephson (16 April 1851, Stockholm, Sweden - 22 November 1906) was a Swedish painter from a prominent Jewish family, whose main work was done on portraits and paintings of folk life.
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Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (July 12, 1884 – January 24, 1920)
Friday, Dec 31, 1999, 07:00pm
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani was an Italian artist, practicing both painting and sculpture, who pursued his career for the most part in France. Modigliani was born in Livorno (historically referred to in English as Leghorn), in Northwestern Italy and began his artistic studies in Italy before moving to Paris in 1906. Influenced by the artists in his circle of friends and associates, by a range of genres and art movements, and by primitive art, Modigliani's œuvre was nonetheless unique and idiosyncratic. He died in Paris of tubercular meningitis— exacerbated by poverty, overworking, and an excessive use of alcohol and narcotics — at the age of 35. |
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Archie Rand (Born: 1950)
Friday, Dec 31, 1999, 07:00pm
Archie Rand is an artist and academic from Brooklyn, New York, currently Presidential Professor of Art at Brooklyn College.
Rand's work as a painter and muralist is displayed around the world, including in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. |
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Balthus: Balthazar Klossowski de Rola (February 29, 1908 – February 18, 2001)
Friday, Dec 31, 1999, 07:00pm
Reclusive French painter who, in the 20th century, reanimated the traditional categories of European painting--the landscape, the still life, the subject painting, and the portrait. Real name Balthazar Klossowski. Jewish mother.
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Barnett Newman (January 29, 1905 – July 4, 1970)
Friday, Dec 31, 1999, 07:00pm
Leading American abstract expressionist painter and sculptor (1905-70). His work was and remains controversial, but he is seen as a forerunner of "minimalism".
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Ben Shahn (September 12, 1898 – March 14, 1969)
Friday, Dec 31, 1999, 07:00pm
American painter and photographer. Well-known for his social realist paintings/posters. Painted murals at Rockefeller Center.
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Camille Pissarro (July 10, 1830 – November 13, 1903)
Friday, Dec 31, 1999, 07:00pm
Camille Pissarro was a French Impressionist painter. His importance resides not only in his visual contributions to Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, but also in his patriarchal standing among his colleagues, particularly Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin.
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Chaïm Soutine (1893 – August 9, 1943)
Friday, Dec 31, 1999, 07:00pm
Chaïm Soutine was born in Lithuania in 1893, he moved to France as a young man and shared a garrett with Modigliani (who was his mentor). His expressionist paintings feature heavy textures and usually depict tortured scenes. Soutine is ranked among the masters of the 20thC. He went into hiding during WWII and his death in 1943 is attributed to bleeding ulcers brought on by stress.
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Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943)
Friday, Dec 31, 1999, 07:00pm
Charlotte Salomon was a German-Jewish artist born in Berlin. Her mother committed suicide in 1926; her grandmother committed suicide at the outbreak of the Second World War. Salomon fled Berlin in 1939, settling in still-unoccupied Vichy, living first with her grandfather and later her husband, a German music teacher, for three years. Salomon and her husband were betrayed to the Gestapo following the Nazi invasion of France. Before the transport to Auschwitz arrived, Salomon entrusted more than 1,000 gouaches to a friend. These included her autobiographical series of paintings Leben? oder Theater?: Ein Singspiel (Life? or Theatre?: A Singspiel ) consisting of 769 individual works painted between 1940 and 1942. She was murdered in a death camp in October 1943.
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Jules Pascin
Friday, Dec 31, 1999, 07:00pm
Julius Mordecai Pincas, (March 31, 1885 – June 5, 1930) known as Pascin, Jules Pascin, or "The Prince of Montparnasse", was a Bulgarian painter.Julius Mordecai Pincas, known as Pascin, Jules Pascin, or "The Prince of Montparnasse", was a Bulgarian painter.
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Lee Krasner
Friday, Dec 31, 1999, 07:00pm
Lee Krasner (October 27, 1908 - June 19, 1984) was an influential abstract expressionist painter in the second half of the 20th Century. In 1945, Krasner married artist Jackson Pollock, who was also influential in the Abstract Expressionism movement.
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Leon Kossoff
Friday, Dec 31, 1999, 07:00pm
Leon Kossoff is a British expressionist painter, who mainly paints portraits, life drawings, and cityscapes of London
Leon Kossoff was born in 1926 in Islington London, and spent most of his early life living there with his Russian Jewish parents. In 1938 he attended the Hackney Downs school in London, when he left in 1943 he went to the St Martin’s school of art and studied commercial art, He also attended life drawing classes in the evenings at Toynbee Hall. |
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Lucian Freud
Friday, Dec 31, 1999, 07:00pm
Lucian Michael Freud, is a British painter. Freud was born in Berlin, Germany in 1922, son of Jewish parents Ernst Ludwig Freud, an architect, and Lucie née Brasch. He is the grandson of Sigmund Freud and brother of writer and politician Clement Raphael Freud and of Stephan Gabriel Freud.
Freud and his family moved to the U.K. in 1933 to escape the rise of Nazism, and gained British citizenship in 1939. During this period he attended Dartington Hall school in Totnes, Devon, and later Bryanston School. |
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Ludwig Meidner
Friday, Dec 31, 1999, 07:00pm
Ludwig Meidner ( Bernstadt, Silesia, 18 April 1884 – Darmstadt, 14 May 1966) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker. He was apprenticed to a stonemason, but the apprenticeship was not completed. He studied at the Royal School of Art in Breslau and, from 1906-07 at the Julien and Cormon Academies in Paris where he met and became friends with Amedeo Modigliani. He returned to Berlin to work as a fashion illustrator and produced realistic if uninspired views of Berlin.
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Mark Rothko
Friday, Dec 31, 1999, 07:00pm
Mark Rothko, born Marcus Rothkowitz [Latvian: Marks Rotko], (September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970) was a Latvian-born Jewish American painter and printmaker who is classified as an abstract expressionist, although he rejected not only the label but even being an abstract painter.
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