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Gottlieb began painting his Pictograph paintings in 1941. In 1943 he and Rothko drafted a letter to the New York Times that outlined the position of Abstract Expressionism for the first time. Gottlieb persisted as a leader in the arts community, becoming a founding member of the New York Artists, Painters, and Abstractionists group and ...
- American
- March 14, 1903
- New York, New York
- March 4, 1974
Gottlieb's Pictographs, which he created from 1941 to 1954, are the first coherent body of mature painting by an American of his generation. Gottlieb spoke of his concerns in a 1947 statement: The role of artist has always been that of image-maker.
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Adolph Gottlieb (March 14, 1903 – March 4, 1974) was an American abstract expressionist painter, sculptor and printmaker. Adolph Gottlieb, one of the "first generation" of Abstract Expressionists, was born in New York in 1903 to Jewish parents.
- American, Jewish
- March 14, 1903
- New York, United States
- March 4, 1974
In 1922 he came back to America and studied painting at the Art Students League, learning to do things that were not exactly literal and to work from imagination and memory (1967 interview, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution).
- March 14, 1903
- March 4, 1974
Gottlieb’s first solo exhibition of pictographs Adolph Gottlieb: Painting opens in December at the Artists Gallery, New York. 1943: Gottlieb becomes a founding member of the “New York Artists Painters”, a group of abstract painters, including Mark Rothko, John Graham, and George Constant.
Adolph Gottlieb (March 14, 1903 – March 4, 1974) was an American abstract expressionist painter, sculptor and printmaker.
Early in the 1940s Gottlieb developed his pictograph style, in which cryptic forms, often derived from mythology and primitive art, were used in a rectilinear, gridlike pattern. Characteristic examples are “Evil Omen” (1946) and “Romanesque Façade” (1949; Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign).
