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1908 Kaunas, Lithuania - 1999 New York City. Known for: Portrait, landscape and still life painting, sculpture.
The following text is from The New York Times, January 20, 2001:. Recreated by the artist after disappearing in a warehouse theft seven years ago, a series of paintings of scenes from Kurt Weill's... Read full biography
The following text is from The New York Times, January 20, 2001:. Recreated by the artist after disappearing in a warehouse theft seven years ago, a series of paintings of scenes from Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera have surfaced at a Manhattan gallery. The 19 works by the painter and sculptor Arbit... Read full biography
The following text is from The New York Times, January 20, 2001:. Recreated by the artist after disappearing in a warehouse theft seven years ago, a series of paintings of scenes from Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera have surfaced at a Manhattan gallery. The 19 works by the painter and sculptor Arbit Blatas, who died in 1999 at the age of 90, are on view with a film by Mr. Blatas's widow, Regina Resnik, the mezzo-soprano and stage director, through Jan. 27 at the Leubsdorf Art Gallery at 68th... Read full biography
The following text is from The New York Times, January 20, 2001:. Recreated by the artist after disappearing in a warehouse theft seven years ago, a series of paintings of scenes from Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera have surfaced at a Manhattan gallery. The 19 works by the painter and sculptor Arbit Blatas, who died in 1999 at the age of 90, are on view with a film by Mr. Blatas's widow, Regina Resnik, the mezzo-soprano and stage director, through Jan. 27 at the Leubsdorf Art Gallery at 68th Street and Lexington Avenue. Mr. Blatas, a Lithuanian-born member of the School of Paris, attended the opera's premiere in Berlin in 1928 and based his paintings on a 1950's revival at the Theater de Lys in Greenwich Village. The production starred... Read full biography
The following text is from The New York Times, January 20, 2001:. Recreated by the artist after disappearing in a warehouse theft seven years ago, a series of paintings of scenes from Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera have surfaced at a Manhattan gallery. The 19 works by the painter and sculptor Arbit Blatas, who died in 1999 at the age of 90, are on view with a film by Mr. Blatas's widow, Regina Resnik, the mezzo-soprano and stage director, through Jan. 27 at the Leubsdorf Art Gallery at 68th Street and Lexington Avenue. Mr. Blatas, a Lithuanian-born member of the School of Paris, attended the opera's premiere in Berlin in 1928 and based his paintings on a 1950's revival at the Theater de Lys in Greenwich Village. The production starred Weill's widow, Lotte Lenya, and included Ed Asner, Jerry Orbach, Jerry Stiller and Jo Sullivan Loesser. Many o... Read full biography
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Keywords (37)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
- •Theatre Scene Painting, Stage/Set Design for Television and/or Movies
Art Media
- •Bronze
- •Charcoal
- •Ink
- •Oil Paint
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Impressionism Before 1940
- •Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
Art Subject
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Holocaust, Nazi Germany, Concentration Camps
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Life-Size Portrait, Figure, Animal
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Still Life
- •Townscape, Village Scenes
- •Urban Landscape, Cityscape
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Europe
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked After 1900
Art Association
- •Associated American Artists
Art School
- •Academie de la Grand Chaumiere, Paris, Student
- •Academie Julian, Paris, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Jewish
Exhibition of Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
- •Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
- •Salon d'Automne
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts