Morris Louis

Morris Louis ( born November 28, 1912 in Baltimore, Maryland, † September 7, 1962 in Washington, DC; actually Morris Louis Bernstein) was an American painter. His works are an important example of the color field painting.

Life

Louis studied 1928-1933 at the Maryland Institute of Fine and Applied Arts in Baltimore. After a temporary move to New York in 1936, he participated in workshops with David Alfaro Siqueiros in part, was called from 1938 Morris Louis and moved in 1940 to his native city. In 1952 he took a job as a lecturer at the Washington Workshop Center of Arts. At this time he also met Kenneth Noland. The two artists were the protagonists of the Washington school. Through the mediation of the art critic Clement Greenberg Morris Louis Helen Frankenthaler, Franz Kline and Jackson Pollock met. Louis destroyed much of his previous work and developed in the years 1953-1961 as a reclusive painter based on the methods of Frankenthaler and Pollock his own style.

He was posthumously represented by works at the documenta III in Kassel in 1964 and also at the documenta 4 in 1968 as an artist.

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