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1899 Zurich, Switzerland - 1972. Known for: Geometric abstraction, still life.
Fritz Glarner contributed significantly to the conceptual development of geometric art. While, most believe that the Dutch painter, Piet Mondrian, was the father of Geometric Abstraction*, the... Read full biography
Fritz Glarner contributed significantly to the conceptual development of geometric art. While, most believe that the Dutch painter, Piet Mondrian, was the father of Geometric Abstraction*, the history of development of geometric art should also include a considerable number of Mondrian's European... Read full biography
Fritz Glarner contributed significantly to the conceptual development of geometric art. While, most believe that the Dutch painter, Piet Mondrian, was the father of Geometric Abstraction*, the history of development of geometric art should also include a considerable number of Mondrian's European contemporaries and several Americans as well. Fritz Glarner was one of these Americans. He was, indeed, deeply influenced by the Dutch master Mondrian, but Glarner's relationship with him during... Read full biography
Fritz Glarner contributed significantly to the conceptual development of geometric art. While, most believe that the Dutch painter, Piet Mondrian, was the father of Geometric Abstraction*, the history of development of geometric art should also include a considerable number of Mondrian's European contemporaries and several Americans as well. Fritz Glarner was one of these Americans. He was, indeed, deeply influenced by the Dutch master Mondrian, but Glarner's relationship with him during Mondrian's last years was probably as much that of a colleague as a disciple. During these few years, 1940-44, Glarner's personal development achieved an independence from Mondrian's thinking which produced a fruitful outgrowth--in Glarner's conception of... Read full biography
Fritz Glarner contributed significantly to the conceptual development of geometric art. While, most believe that the Dutch painter, Piet Mondrian, was the father of Geometric Abstraction*, the history of development of geometric art should also include a considerable number of Mondrian's European contemporaries and several Americans as well. Fritz Glarner was one of these Americans. He was, indeed, deeply influenced by the Dutch master Mondrian, but Glarner's relationship with him during Mondrian's last years was probably as much that of a colleague as a disciple. During these few years, 1940-44, Glarner's personal development achieved an independence from Mondrian's thinking which produced a fruitful outgrowth--in Glarner's conception of "relational painting." . This effort to produce a "purer and closer relationship between form and space" led to the identification... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
Art Media
- •Chalk
- •Charcoal
- •Colored Pencil
- •Gouache
- •Oil Paint
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Geometric Abstraction, Linear, Grids, Hard Edge
- •Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
- •Op Art, Optical
- •Pure Abstraction, Line, Shape, Color, Texture
Art Subject
- •Still Life
Art Association
- •American Abstract Artists-
Art School
- •Academy Colarossi, Paris, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Abstraction Specialty
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Brooklyn Museum of Art
- •Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts