biography
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| (1888–1976)
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| biography:
| Painter and designer, born in Bottrop, W Germany. He trained in Berlin, Essen, and Munich, and from 1920 was involved with the Bauhaus. In 1933 he fled Nazi Germany to the USA, teaching at the experimental Black Mountain College, NC (1933–49) and at Yale (1950–60). He became a US citizen in 1939. As a painter he was interested chiefly in colour relationships, and from 1950 produced a series of wholly abstract canvases, ‘Homage to the Square’, exploring this theme with great subtlety. |
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