Carl Holty
Carl Robert Holty ( born 1900 in Freiburg im Breisgau, † March 22, 1973 in New York City ) was a German-born American abstract painter.
Life and work
Holty was born in Freiburg, because his father, a German-born physician, further trained at the University as a specialist since 1899. Even before the first birthday of Carl, the family moved back to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Holtys grandfather with the grandson visited local art galleries to nächerzubringen Carl art. With 12 years Holty took lessons from a local German painter. As a teenager he began to sign cartoons. Hence its desire to become a poster painter stirred; so he left in 1919, Milwaukee in the hope to achieve through the study at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Shortly thereafter, he still went to New York where he enrolled at Parsons School of Design and subsequently also at the National Academy of Design. In 1923 he returned to Milwaukee to work as a portraitist. In 1925 he married and in 1926 he moved with his bride to Munich, where he planned to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Instead, he met his friend Vaclav Vytlacil in Munich, the Holty convinced to join the School of Fine Art of Hans Hofmann. The visit to the school of Hofmann transformed the ideas and the painting of Holty, it was as if Holty Hofmann opened his eyes. Since his wife was suffering from tuberculosis, Holty went in 1927 in Switzerland. Although Holty had only briefly studied with Hofmann, the two remained in contact and Holty began to take over Hofmann's teachings in his art. After the death of his wife in 1930 Holty moved to Paris, where Robert Delaunay Holtys membership of Abstraction- Création promoted. 1933 were published in the Journal of the group Holtys works, also there were some respected exhibitions in Paris. 1935 Holty returned back to New York, where he met Hans Hofmann, Vaclav Vytlacil and Stuart Davis again. He was also a member of the American Abstract Artists. From 1950 to 1970 taught Holty at Brooklyn College.