John Marin

John Marin ( born December 23, 1870 in Rutherford, New Jersey, † October 2, 1953 in Addison, Maine) was an American painter. Marin is one of the main representatives of Abstract Expressionism, his main work form watercolors.

Life

Marin, whose mother died shortly after his birth, was brought up by his aunts and grew up in Weehawken (New Jersey). He attended for one year the Stevens Institute of Technology before he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and later at the Art Students League of New York from 1899 to 1901. In his early years he had frequently changing jobs, his idea to work as an architect, he finally gave up and devoted himself to painting. He was among the first American artists who were concerned with the abstract painting. After a few weeks at the Art Students League in New York in 1905 he went to Paris, where he met the photographer Edward Steichen, who gave his work to Alfred Stieglitz. In 1909, Marin along with Alfred Henry Maurer in Stieglitz's Gallery 291 of 1913 there followed a solo exhibition; In the same year Marin also participated in the Armory Show. 1936 was followed by another acclaimed exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, where even today still works. Further works are in over 50 museums alone in the United States among others such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the National Gallery of Art to find.

John Marin was highly regarded as an artist and got in 1950 as an award for his work from the University of Maine and Yale University with a Doctor of Fine Arts honorary awarded. The filmmaker Michael Maglaras published in December 2009, the documentary " John Marin: Let the Paint be Paint".