biografía de Leo KATZ (1887-1982)

Lugar de nacimiento: Roznau, Czechoslovakia

Lugar de defunción: New York, NY?

Direcciones: Hampton, VA; Bronx, NY

Profesión: Mural painter, portrait painter, miniature painter, drawing specialist, lecturer, lithographer, teacher, writer

Estudios: Acad. Fine Arts, Vienna (grad., 1908); Acad. Fine Arts, Munich, 1909; Mexico; South America.

Exposiciones: Ehrich Gal.; Seligmann Gal.; Montross Gal.; Puma Gal.; CMA; LACMA; San Diego FA Soc.; BM; AIC; Salons of Am., 1924, 1928-29, 1931-32; solo shows, Old Nat Gallery, Smithsonian Inst., 1924 & Fine Arts Mus., San Diego, CA, 1927; PAFA Ann., 1932; Nat. Print Shows, Long Beach, CA, 1938 & LOC, 1946; US Embassy-Cult. Attaché Exhib., Paris, 1951 & Traveling Exhib. New York, France, Italy, Egypt, India, Pakistan & others, 1951-52; Allan Stone Gallery, NYC & Lotte Jacobi Studio of Art & Photography, Hillsboro, NH, 1970s. Awards: Long Beach AA, 1938 (prize); first prize for lithography, Nat. Print Soc., Long Beach, 1938; Pennell Purchase Prize for Engraving & Etching, LOC Print Dept., 1946; MacDowell fel., 1960-62.

Asociaciones: Soc. Am. Graphic Artists; Found. Mind. Res. (adv. bd.); Am. Soc. Psychical Res.; MMA, WMAA & MoMA

Obra: BM; NYPL; LOC; Albertina Mus., Vienna; WMAA; Print Dept, MMA; Print Dept, MoMA; Print Dept., Lessing Rosenwald Coll., Nat. Gal.; Bibliot. Nat., Paris. Commissions: murals, comn. by Baron W. von Gutmann, Tobitschau Castle, Czechoslovakia, 1913-15, Give Us This Day Our Daily Light, Century Prog. Expo., Johns-Manville Bldg, Chicago, 1933-34, Crossroads, Works Prog. Admin., Frank Wiggins Trade Sch., Los Angeles, CA, 1935-36 & Metamorphosis 1942, comn. by Dr. & Mrs. Bela Schick, Garrison, NY; set of Orozco frescoes, Dartmouth Col., NH, 1932.

Comentarios: Came to U. S. in 1920. Preferred media: watercolors, tempera, fresco, acrylics, intaglio, graphics, lithography. Positions: chmn. dept. art, Hampton Inst., 1946-53; dir., Atelier 17, NYC, 1946 & 1950-55; pres. & trustee, Virginia A. All., Richmond, 1951-52; Whitney prof. artist-in-residence, Spelman Col., 1955-57. Teaching: lectr., MMA, 1927-33; visit. lectr., New S. Soc. Res. & UC Los Angeles, 1929-33; CUASch., 1936-46; assoc. prof., Brooklyn Col., 1942-45. Publications: contribr., chapt., In: Encycl Social Sci., Columbia Univ. Press, 1930; auth., Understanding Modern Art, Vols I-III, 1936-40; contribr., Miniature Camera Work Morgan & Lester, 1938; contribr., four chapters, In: Encycl. Photog., 1942-72; contribr., "Art & Archeology in the Aztec Figure of Coatlicue," Mag. Art, April, 1945.

Fuentes: WW73; Falk, Exh. Record Series.