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German expressionism, which flowered between the late 1800s and the collapse of the Weimar Republic in 1932, is the orphan of modern art: plaintive, clotted with turbulent emotion, snotty and-outside Germany-somewhat inaccessible. Its local significance was immense, its international resonance small; even today, the expressionist works that survive best seem to be in film (Fritz Lang) or theater (Brecht-Weill) rather than in painting...
After Abstract Expressionist Painter Mark Rothko opened his veins in his Manhattan studio four years ago, his estate of 798 paintings was divided between his two children and a foundation for struggling older artists. His dealer was Marlborough. Marlborough immediately signed a contract with the estate's executors (one of whom was Marlborough Treasurer-Secretary Bernard Reis) to buy 100 choice Rothkos outright for $1.8 million, payable without interest over twelve years-an effective average price of $13,000 apiece at a time when, the plaintiffs allege, Rothkos were going on the open market for between...
...expressionism. For Pollock to do a preliminary sketch for one of his drip paintings would have subverted their aesthetic intent, since the web of form depended on the fluid, spontaneous and unrepeatable movements of the hand. De Kooning-and to some extent Robert Motherwell -are the only surviving abstract expressionist painters in whose work the preliminary study does play a big role. In both cases, drawing is linked to collage and the shifting and superimposition of forms en bloc...
Robbins said that Fineberg, who concentrates on early modern German expressionist painting, and Seidel, with her specialty in medieval and Gothic art, will complement each other as curators. The Busch collection includes German art ranging from the late middle ages to the present...
Died. Adolph Gottlieb, 70, one of the founders of the abstract expressionist school of painting along with Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Willem de Kooning; after a long illness; in New York City. Rebelling against the social realism that dominated painting in the '40s, Gottlieb created "pictographs"-checkerboard patterns of squares filled with hieroglyphic-like imagery. In the late '50s he began a series of what he called "Bursts," huge canvases with floating blobs of color that sometimes resemble suns poised over jagged horizons. Gottlieb, whose works have sold for as much as $30,000, is represented...