Barnett Newman

Barnett Newman ( born January 29, 1905 in New York; † July 4, 1970 ) was an American painter and sculptor. He was the representative of a meditative Expressionism, and coined the Colour Field Painting ( color field painting ).

Life

Newman was born as Barnett Newman Baruch in New York, the son of Russian Jewish emigrants. He studied in 1922 at the Art Students League of New York at Duncan Smith and John French Sloan, and in 1923 at the City College of New York with a focus on philosophy. In 1927, he received a Bachelor of Arts. From 1931 to 1939 he worked helping out as an art teacher at New York high schools, since he was three times flunked his exams, but he was in 1942. Active Newman turned to first in 1937 and the painting was 1944/1945 best known for his surreal and calligraphic drawings. 1948 Barnett Newman published the essay The Sublime is Now and founded together with Mark Rothko, William Baziotes, Robert Motherwell and David Hare a school called Subjects of the Artists. At this time, Newman painted mainly abstract- expressionist paintings (see Black Paintings ). As of 1948, these Newman (also Post - Painterly called ) for further abstraction purely structurally oriented hard-edge painting, like little later, the American painter and art theorist Ad Reinhardt.

His first solo exhibition was in 1950 at Newman Betty Parsons in New York, after which he retired, however, due to the devastating reviews until 1958 to again be presented in a new solo exhibition at Bennington College in Vermont his works to the public. In the same year he participated in the exhibition The New American Painting at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In these works he led the reduction of shape and color to the extreme by showing a large area monochrome canvases that were occasionally crossed by contrasting lines. This style he remained faithful until his death, about his recent work Midnight Blue.

Barnett Newman in 1959 at the documenta II and 1968, the documenta 4 in Kassel, and 1965, the São Paulo Biennial. 1964 Newman traveled to Europe and visited London, Basel, Colmar, Paris and Chartres. Two more trips to Europe in the years 1967-1968 took him to Ireland, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Spain. He inspired philosophers such as Jean -François Lyotard and Wolfgang Welsch to deal with his art and to "re- animation" of the sublime in aesthetics. In 1970 he died in New York at the consequences of a heart attack.

1982 was stamped on his painting Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue in West Berlin New National Gallery by a visitor and his work Cathedra at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1997 cut with a knife.