Louis Lozowick
Louis Lozowick (1892 – 1973) (ukr: Луї Лозовик) was a Russian-American painter and printmaker. He is recognized as an Art Deco and Precisionist artist, and mainly produced streamline, urban-inspired monochromatic lithographs in a career that spanned 50 years.
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| Born | 1892 |
| Died | 1973 New Jersey, USA |
| Education | Kyiv Art School, National Academy of Design (New York), Ohio State University |
| Known for | Painting, Printmaking |
Notable work | Pittsburgh (1922-1923), Detroit (Urban Geometry) (1925-1927) |
| Movement | Constructivism, Precisionism, Art Deco |
| Spouse(s) | Adele Turner |
Early life
Lozowick was born in the Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire) in 1892 to Abraham and Mary (Tafipolsky) Lozowick.[1] HIs parenets moved to Kyiv when he was young, and he attended Kyiv Art School before he immigrated to the USA, where he continued his studies at the National Academy of Design (New York) and Ohio State University. In America, Lozowick became fluent in English, in addition to his native Ukrainian, Russian, and Yiddish.[1]
Career
From 1919 to 1924 Lozowick lived and traveled throughout Europe, spending most of his time in Paris, Berlin and Moscow. In the mid-1920s he started making his first lithographs. During this period he contributed an article to Broom which was very appreciative of Veshch-Gegenstand Objekt, by El Lissitzky and Ilya Ehrenberg.[2]
By 1926, when he joined the editorial board of the left-wing journal, New Masses, he was well-versed in current artistic developments in Europe, such as Constructivism and de Stijl. These hard-edged, linear styles, evident in a lithograph called "New York (Brooklyn Bridge)," suggest the possibility of an efficient reframing of the world, as did the political theories espoused in New Masses. A version of this lithograph was planned as a cover for New Masses that was never published.
Lozowick was highly interested in the development of the Russian avant-garde and even published a monograph on Russian Constructivism entitled Modern Russian Art.
In 1943 Lozowick moved to New Jersey where he continued to paint and make prints. The human condition remained a constant theme of his art, and an ongoing interest in nature appears more frequently in his later works.
Personal
Lozowick married Adele Turner in 1933 and moved a few years later to South Orange, New Jersey, where their son Lee Lozowick was born on November 18, 1943.[3]
See also
References
- Current Biography: Louis Lozowick. 1942. p. 40.
- Reischl, Kat (2017). "Вешь/Objet/Gegenstand on the International Stage (Journal of Modern Periodical Studies)". Journal of Modern Periodical Studies. 8 (2): 134–156. doi:10.5325/jmodeperistud.8.2.0134. S2CID 150257479.
- Marquardt, Virginia H. (17 February 1997). Survivor from a Dead Age: The Memoirs of Louis Lozowick. Smithsonian Institution Press. pp. 274–275.
Bibliography
- Associated American Artists. (1992). Louis Lozowick : a centennial exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints: December 2–31, 1992. New York: author.
- Flint, J.A. (1982). The prints of Louis Lozowick : a catalogue raisonné. New York: Hudson Hills Press.
- Harnsberger, R.S. (1992). Ten precisionist artists : annotated bibliographies [Art Reference Collection no. 14]. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
- Marquardt, Virginia H. (Ed.) (1997). Survivor from a Dead Age: The Memoirs of Louis Lozowick. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
External links
- Louis Lozowick (Russian/American, 1892-1973) on artnet
- Examples of Lozowick's work
- Columbus Museum of Art Web page on Lozowick's 1936 lithograph Lynching (click on picture for larger image)
- Louis Lozowick Papers At the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art
- Comrades in Art: Louis Kozowick
