Norman Bluhm

Norman Bluhm ( born March 28, 1921 in Chicago, Illinois, † February 3, 1999 in East Wallingford, Vermont ) was an American painter. He was one of the most important representatives of Abstract Expressionism.

Life

Norman Bluhm was born on March 28, 1921 in Chicago, Illinois in the United States. He studied architecture from 1936 to 1941 with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe at the Armour (now Illinois) Institute of Technology. After military service in World War II from 1941 to 1945, he returned shortly returned to Illinois, but then decided not to terminate the study of architecture. He moved in 1946 to Italy and studied art at the Academia de Belle Arte in Florence., 1947, he moved to Paris and studied until 1956 at the École des Beaux -Arts in Paris. He married in 1950 Claude Souvrain in Paris, from which he was divorced in 1956. During his time in Paris, he established close contacts with artists, actors and writers, these included, for example, Joan Mitchell, Sam Francis, Jean Paul Riopelle, Zao Wou -ki and others. In 1949, he starred in the movie Orphée by Jean Cocteau with. In 1956 he returned to the United States. He married Carolyn Ogle in 1961, the two lived in New York City until 1969 and had two children. , David (1962 ) and Nina (1963).

Work

Norman Bluhm had his first solo exhibition in 1957 at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York. His art has received international attention: In 1959, an exhibition at the Galleria del Naviglio in Milan and in the same year the participation in the documenta II in Kassel. It was followed by numerous exhibitions at home and abroad.

From 1970 to 1980, the family lived in Millbrook, New York, and from 1980 to 1987 in East Hampton, NY. Later they lived in East Wallingford, Vermont, where Norman Bluhm died at his home on February 3, 1999.