Howard Kanovitz

Howard Kanovitz ( born February 9, 1929 in Fall River, Massachusetts, † February 3, 2009 in New York City ) was an American painter and printmaker.

Kanovitz studied from 1945 to 1951 painting at the Rhode Iceland School of Design and then worked for a year as assistant to Franz Kline in New York. 1962 his first solo exhibition took place in New York. 1969 were on display at the Museum Ludwig in the exhibition Art of the 60's some of his paintings. He participated in the Documenta 5 (1972) and the Documenta 6 (1977 ) in Kassel. Solo exhibitions dedicated to him, among other things 1974 Lehmbruck Museum, and in 1978 the Berlin Academy of Arts. From 1981 to 1985 he taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

In the 1950s Kanovitz ' paintings were attributed to the Abstract Expressionism. After several trips to Europe, he turned into the representational painter, since 1963 Kanovitz was one of the most important representatives of photorealism. Initially there was his collage technique in assembling existing photos in his paintings in a different form. Later he modified this technique by the fact that he took off individual parts of his compositions in space of the images. One of his most famous works is the painting " exhibition", which can be seen at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. In the 1970s Kanovitz created numerous images in which he made ​​the situation in the studio of the photographer on the topic. Goods at the beginning of the 1970s painted with airbrush and stencils, to thereby enhance the photographic effect his pictures, then Kanovitz the late 1970s turned back more to the pastel painting.