Jules Olitski

Jules Olitski ( born March 27, 1922 in Snowsk; † 4th February 2007 in New York; actually Jewel Demikowski ) was an American painter and sculptor of Ukrainian origin. He is considered an important representative of abstract art.

Life

Olitski, who was born a few months after the execution of his father by the Soviet government, fled in 1923 with his mother and grandmother in the United States and grew up in Brooklyn. 1926 his mother married the widower Hyman Olitski, who brought two more sons into the marriage. From 1939 to 1942 attended Olitski the National Academy of Design in New York and then the Beaux Arts Institute in New York. Since Olitski took part in the Second World War, he had his education interrupt until 1949 and then studied at the Academie Grande Chaumiere in Paris with Ossip Zadkine. He graduated in 1954 from a Master of Arts at New York University.

In the 1960s, Olitski made ​​a name as a representative of Color Field Painting -. In 1968 he participated in the documenta 4 in Kassel.

Olitski lived and worked in studios in New Hampshire and Florida.

Jules Olitski died on February 4, 2007 from cancer.