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Morris Louis Bernstein was one of four sons born into a middle-class Jewish family in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1912. His parents, Louis and Cecelia (Luckman) Bernstein, were Russian immigrants. Louis attended public schools in Baltimore and developed an early interest in art. At the age of 15, despite his parents' wishes he decided not to pursue medical studies and instead accepted a ...
Morris Louis (born Nov. 24, 1912, Baltimore, Md., U.S.—died Sept. 7, 1962, Washington, D.C.) was an American painter associated with the New York school of Abstract Expressionism who is notable for his distinctly personal use of colour, often in brilliant bands or stripes. Louis studied painting at the Maryland Institute, Baltimore (1929–33 ...
Sein Lebenslauf. Morris Louis war ein amerikanischer Maler und gilt als bedeutender Vertreter des abstrakten Expressionismus und der Farbfeldmalerei. Morris Louis begründete in Washington zusammen mit Kenneth Noland und anderen Malern die Kunstrichtung, die heute bekannt ist als die Washington Color School. Morris Louis wurde am 28.
Morris Louis belonged to what the critic Clement Greenberg called “Post-Painterly Abstraction, ” which followed the pioneers of the School of New York. Born Morris Louis Bernstein, he studied at the Maryland Institute of Fine and Applied Arts in Baltimore from 1927 to 1932, the year the Works Progress Administration commissioned him to paint a mural at a state school in his city of birth.
Morris Louis: The Complete Paintings. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1985, pp. 9-34.] Little more than twenty years after his death in 1962, the reputation of Morris Louis is securely established. An extensive bibliography and exhibition history, as well as the presence of his paintings in the collections of almost seventy museums around the ...
In allen seinen Werkgruppen hat Louis die Malerei radikal neu durchdacht und schließlich unmittelbare, der Farbe eigene Formen entwickelt. Die Farbe dient bei ihm nicht mehr dem Selbstausdruck des Künstlers, sie wird autonom und neues Faktum. So wurde Morris Louis wegweisend für eine neue Künstlergeneration. Er gehörte zu den wenigen ...
Morris Louis Bernstein (November 28, 1912 – September 7, 1962), known professionally as Morris Louis, was an American painter. During the 1950s he became one of the earliest exponents of Color Field painting. While living in Washington, D.C., Louis, along with Kenneth Noland and other Washington painters, formed an art movement that is known ...
