biografía de Abraham RATTNER (1893-1978)

Lugar de nacimiento: Poughkeepsie, NY

Lugar de defunción: NYC

Direcciones: NYC

Profesión: Painter

Estudios: Corcoran School Art, 1913-15; George Washington Univ, 1913-14; PAFA, 1915-17; Académie Julian, Paris; …coles Beaux Arts, Paris, 1921-23; Acad. Ransom, Paris, 1923-24; Acad. Grande Chaumière, 1924-25; Sorbonne, 1925-26.

Exposiciones: PAFA Ann., 1929, 1939-66 (medal 1945); CI, 1943-46; Corcoran Gal biennials, 1941-65 (10 times, incl. gold med, 1953); AIC; BMFA; MoMA, 1945; WMAA; SFMA; Santa Barbara Mus. Art; Pepsi-Cola 1946 (prize); La Tausca Pearls Exhib., 1947 (prize); Phila. Art All.; BMA; CPLH; New Orleans Arts & Crafts; Chicago AC; NGA; VMFA; CAM; Iowa State Univ.; Salon d'Automne, Salon des Tuileries, Salon des Independants, Paris; Univ. Illinois, 1948 (prize), 1952 (retrospective); Temple Univ., Phila. 1955 (citation & gold medal, solo show); Art Directors Club, Phila., 1956 (gold medal); AFA Traveling Exhib., 1960-61; Downtown Gal.; Kennedy Gals., NYC, 1970s.

Asociaciones: NIAL

Obra: U.S. State Dept.; MoMA; WMAA; PAFA; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; AIC; BMA; Ft. Worth AA; Encyclopaedia Britannica Collection; Pepsi-Cola Collection; Clearwater Art Mus.; PMG. Commissions: mosaic mural, St. Francis Monastery, Chicago, 1956; mosaic columns & tapestry murals, Fairmount Temple, Cleveland, OH, 1957; stained glass facade, Loop Synagogue, Chicago, IL, 1958; De Waters AC, Flint, MI, 1958; facade, St. Leonard's Friary & College.

Comentarios: Expressionist artist. Rattner joined the army in WWI and was sent to France as a camouflage artist. He returned to Europe after the war on scholarship and remained there until the outbreak of WWII in 1939, when he had to leave most of his work behind. He soon after took an extended road-trip through the U.S. with his novelist friend Henry Miller, whom he knew from Paris (Miller later wrote an account of the trip, with illustrations by Rattner). Teaching: instructor, Skowhegan School Art, summers 1949-50; artist-in-residence, Am. Acad. in Rome, 1951; teacher, Yale (1952-53), New School, NYC (1947-55), BM (1950-51), ASL (1954) visiting prof., PAFA, 1955; visiting prof., Columbia Univ., 1955-56; instructor & artist-in-residence, many leading schools & universities.

Fuentes: WW73; WW47; Lloyd Goodrich & John I.H. Baur, Four American Expressionists, WMAA, 1949; Baigell, Dictionary; S.W. Hayter, About Prints, Oxford Univ. Press, 1962; Archives of American Art Journal, vol.27, No. 2, 1987, p.36; 300 Years of American Art, 865; Falk, Exh. Record Series.

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