Burgoyne Diller

Burgoyne Diller ( born January 13, 1906 in New York City, USA, † January 30, 1965 ) was an American painter and sculptor and representatives of geometric abstraction.

Life and work

A. Burgoyne Diller grew up in Michigan and moved in 1928 to New York. He studied from 1929 at the Art Students League of New York by the year 1934. A friend and classmate was Harry Holtzman. He received his decisive influence of the teachers in January Matulka and Hans Hofmann.

In the early 1930s, he showed great interest in the work of Kasimir Malevich and the Russian constructivist artists. Many of his most famous works are characterized by orthogonal geometric forms that also demonstrate a strong interest in the De Stijl movement and the work of Piet Mondrian in particular.

Burgoyne Diller was a founding member of the American Abstract Artists. Diller abstract work are also considered " constructivist ". He also created images and representative works at the beginning of his career as a muralist for the New York City Federal Arts Project. In the year 1968 he was represented by four strictly square, geometric abstract paintings posthumously at the documenta 4 in Kassel.

His works are part of the collection of many major museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the National Gallery of Art and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC.

Literature and sources

• Exhibition catalog for Documenta IV: IV documentation. International Exhibition; Catalogue: Volume 1: ( painting and sculpture ); Volume 2: (graphics / objects ); Kassel 1968
• Kimpel, Harald / stem, Karin: documenta IV International Exhibition 1968 - A photographic reconstruction ( Series of the documenta - Archives); Bremen 2007, ISBN 978-3-86108-524-9