biography
| name: |
Reinhardt, Ad(olph Dietrich Friedrich)
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pronunciation:
[riynhah(r)t]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1913–67)
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| biography:
| Painter and teacher, born in Buffalo, New York, USA. He studied at Columbia University (1931–5, 1936–7), and at New York University (c.1946–50). Based in New York, he was a member of the American Abstract Artists group (1937–47). He taught at Brooklyn College, New York (1947–67), and worked as an art critic, illustrator, and cartoonist for various periodicals. Influenced by oriental art, he travelled to Asia in 1958. He began as an abstract minimalist and colourist and remained so. In the 1940s he painted bright abstractions, went on to his red and black period, as seen in ‘Red Painting’ (1952), and from 1952 he concentrated on his ‘black’ paintings which combine subtle colour tonalities. |
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