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Biography of Adolph Gottlieb
Name: Adolph Gottlieb
Birth Date: March 14, 1903
Death Date: March 4, 1974
Place of Birth: New York, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: painter, artist
Adolph Gottlieb
The American painter Adolph Gottlieb (1903-1974) was a pioneer in the movement of Abstract Expressionism, working closely with other artists seeking new ways of self-expression.Adolph Gottlieb was born in New York City on March 14, 1903. He left high school when he was 16 and enrolled in the Art Students League in New York where he studied painting under Robert Henri and John Sloan. In 1921 Gottlieb worked on a steamer for his passage to Europe. He took classes at the Académie de la Chaumière in Paris and later traveled to Munich and Berlin. Returning to New York in 1923, he finished high school and for the next six years studied at art schools in the city.Gottlieb was awarded a joint prize in the Dudensing National Competition in 1929 and in the following year shared a two-man exhibition with Konrad Cramer at Dudensing Galleries in New York. In the early 1930s …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…following year he was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters, a tribute to his teaching and to his artistic innovation and production. He died in Easthampton, New York on March 4, 1974. Further Reading Robert Doty and Diane Waldman, Adolph Gottlieb (1968) is the catalogue of the exhibition at the Whitney and Guggenheim Museums and presents an essay on the evolution of Gottlieb's style and a chronology of his exhibitions. Many illustrations are in color. Adolph Gottlieb: Paintings (1980), catalogue from the exhibition held at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska, also includes an informative essay on the artist's life and work. For the artist's lesser known three-dimensional pieces, see Gottlieb: Sculpture (1970). Another overview is Adolph Gottlieb: A Retrospective (1981), with text by Lawrence Alloway and Mary Davis MacNaughton. Brief summaries of Gottlieb and his work appear in numerous resource publications such as Contemporary Artists (1989) and the Encyclopedia of American Biography (1996).
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