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1904 Berlin, Germany - 1997. Known for: Abstract expressionist and cubist painting, collages.
EDITH CASPARY LONDON (1904-1997). Edith Caspary’s exposure to art began as a child in Berlin; her extended family included writers and sculptors, who enjoyed the lively cultural milieu of the Weimar... Read full biography
EDITH CASPARY LONDON (1904-1997). Edith Caspary’s exposure to art began as a child in Berlin; her extended family included writers and sculptors, who enjoyed the lively cultural milieu of the Weimar Republic in the interwar period. Between 1929 and 1931, London attended the University of Berlin,... Read full biography
EDITH CASPARY LONDON (1904-1997). Edith Caspary’s exposure to art began as a child in Berlin; her extended family included writers and sculptors, who enjoyed the lively cultural milieu of the Weimar Republic in the interwar period. Between 1929 and 1931, London attended the University of Berlin, took classes at Berlin’s Federation of Women Artists, and was introduced to the work of Henri Matisse. Matisse’s impact on her developing aesthetic was “enormous,” as London recounted towards the end of... Read full biography
EDITH CASPARY LONDON (1904-1997). Edith Caspary’s exposure to art began as a child in Berlin; her extended family included writers and sculptors, who enjoyed the lively cultural milieu of the Weimar Republic in the interwar period. Between 1929 and 1931, London attended the University of Berlin, took classes at Berlin’s Federation of Women Artists, and was introduced to the work of Henri Matisse. Matisse’s impact on her developing aesthetic was “enormous,” as London recounted towards the end of her career: “This is what I have learned from Matisse: that color and form can be created independently of the object.”. Edith married a noted theoretical physicist, Fritz London, in 1929 and together they spent a year in Rome. With the ascendancy... Read full biography
EDITH CASPARY LONDON (1904-1997). Edith Caspary’s exposure to art began as a child in Berlin; her extended family included writers and sculptors, who enjoyed the lively cultural milieu of the Weimar Republic in the interwar period. Between 1929 and 1931, London attended the University of Berlin, took classes at Berlin’s Federation of Women Artists, and was introduced to the work of Henri Matisse. Matisse’s impact on her developing aesthetic was “enormous,” as London recounted towards the end of her career: “This is what I have learned from Matisse: that color and form can be created independently of the object.”. Edith married a noted theoretical physicist, Fritz London, in 1929 and together they spent a year in Rome. With the ascendancy of Nazism, the Londons, who were Jewish, fled Germany in 1933 and moved to Oxford, England, followed by nearly three years in Paris... Read full biography
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Keywords (14)
Art Method
- •Collage and/or Decoupage
- •Impasto, Heavy Paint
- •Palette Knife, Heavy Texture
Art Style
- •Abstract Expressionism
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Cubism, Cubist
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •France After 1900
- •Italy
Art Teacher
- •Andre Lhote
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Abstraction Specialty