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1905 Brussels, Belgium - 1990 Waterbury, Connecticut. Known for: Abstract expression.
Joseph Meert, an abstract expressionist and friend of Jackson Pollock actually saved Pollock's life one night. On a sub-zero winter night of 1943 or 1944, Pollock came to visit Meert at his... Read full biography
Joseph Meert, an abstract expressionist and friend of Jackson Pollock actually saved Pollock's life one night. On a sub-zero winter night of 1943 or 1944, Pollock came to visit Meert at his apartment, however Pollock had passed out drunk in a snowdrift and would have frozen to death had it not been... Read full biography
Joseph Meert, an abstract expressionist and friend of Jackson Pollock actually saved Pollock's life one night. On a sub-zero winter night of 1943 or 1944, Pollock came to visit Meert at his apartment, however Pollock had passed out drunk in a snowdrift and would have frozen to death had it not been for Meert. In the 1920s, he was a resident of Kansas City, Kansas living at 1014 Tenny Street and taught at the Kansas City Art Institute from 1935 - 1941. Despite his extensive exhibition record,... Read full biography
Joseph Meert, an abstract expressionist and friend of Jackson Pollock actually saved Pollock's life one night. On a sub-zero winter night of 1943 or 1944, Pollock came to visit Meert at his apartment, however Pollock had passed out drunk in a snowdrift and would have frozen to death had it not been for Meert. In the 1920s, he was a resident of Kansas City, Kansas living at 1014 Tenny Street and taught at the Kansas City Art Institute from 1935 - 1941. Despite his extensive exhibition record, Meert never found financial success. In 1980, after the death of his wife, his medical and mental condition began to deteriorate, but he was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia and became a ward of a state nursing home. In 1985, the Pollock-Krasner... Read full biography
Joseph Meert, an abstract expressionist and friend of Jackson Pollock actually saved Pollock's life one night. On a sub-zero winter night of 1943 or 1944, Pollock came to visit Meert at his apartment, however Pollock had passed out drunk in a snowdrift and would have frozen to death had it not been for Meert. In the 1920s, he was a resident of Kansas City, Kansas living at 1014 Tenny Street and taught at the Kansas City Art Institute from 1935 - 1941. Despite his extensive exhibition record, Meert never found financial success. In 1980, after the death of his wife, his medical and mental condition began to deteriorate, but he was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia and became a ward of a state nursing home. In 1985, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation awarded a grant to have him transferred to a better facility in Cheshire, CT, where he received art therapy treatment and benefited from thi... Read full biography
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Keywords (21)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Palette Knife, Heavy Texture
Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstract Expressionism
- •Abstraction, Abstract
Art Subject
- •Regionalism, Local Scene
Art School
- •Kansas City Art Institute, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •Bakkom Photo Collection, St. Paul, Minnesota (2)
Added Description
- •Abstraction Specialty
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Artist Colony
- •Ste. (Sainte) Genevieve Art Colony, Missouri
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Woodstock NY Art Association
Exhibition of Museum
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts