Philip Pearlstein

Philip Pearlstein (* May 29, 1924 in Pittsburgh / Pennsylvania) is an American painter, printmaker and draftsman.

Pearlstein is a classmate of Andy Warhol and studied from 1945 with him at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh. Pearlstein 's return from the war and has been since his early youth artistic ambitions. In 1943 he became, at age nineteen, drafted into the army and shipped for deployment to Italy. During his military service he assisted in the development of strategic and drawing maps and diagrams. In 1946 he returned to the U.S. to finish his studies at the Carnegie on the side of Warhol.

Pearlstein had published in 1941 Illustrations for Life magazine. After completing his studies in 1947 Pearlstein attended along with Warhol multiple New York City to 1948 then finally settle down with his future wife Dorothy Cantor and his two fellow artists Warhol and Arthur Elias in the city. In the summer of 1949, both Warhol as Pearlstein begin contract work at the New York studios and advertising agencies to acquire, with the beginning showman Warhol should be more successful. Philip Pearlstein and Dorothy Cantor married 1950. Pearlstein works from 1950 again for the Life Magazine. 1969 his first color lithographs published.

Philip Pearlstein has become primarily through photo-realistic nude paintings, which he placed as a lifeless body curled into image segments, is known. In Germany work found by him entered the collections of the Prints and Drawings in Berlin- Dahlem, or the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. He is also represented in numerous international museums with its works.

At the meteoric success of his fellow student Andy Warhol Pearlstein was not able, however; However, it counts alongside Alex Katz of the most famous contemporary American painters of realism.

Bibliography (selection)

• " Philip Pearlstein since 1983 " by Robert Storr (2002) ISBN 0-8109-0435-7 (English)
• " Philip Pearlstein: Drawings and Watercolors " by John Perreault (1988 ) ISBN 0-8109-1496-4 (English)