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1895 Nadlak, Hungary - 1976 Taos, New Mexico. Known for: Dynamic symmetry, non objective painting.
Hungarian born, Emil Bisttram became one of the Southwest's leading painters and teachers. He was a founder of the Transcendental Art movement in New Mexico, devoted to themes exploring and promoting... Read full biography
Hungarian born, Emil Bisttram became one of the Southwest's leading painters and teachers. He was a founder of the Transcendental Art movement in New Mexico, devoted to themes exploring and promoting universal meaning that included idealistic forms and colors that suggested sounds. Best known as an... Read full biography
Hungarian born, Emil Bisttram became one of the Southwest's leading painters and teachers. He was a founder of the Transcendental Art movement in New Mexico, devoted to themes exploring and promoting universal meaning that included idealistic forms and colors that suggested sounds. Best known as an abstract painter, his style ranged from the classic regionalism of the 1930s (WPA murals) to abstractions based on the dynamic symmetry theories he learned from Jay Hambidge, tempered by Roerich's... Read full biography
Hungarian born, Emil Bisttram became one of the Southwest's leading painters and teachers. He was a founder of the Transcendental Art movement in New Mexico, devoted to themes exploring and promoting universal meaning that included idealistic forms and colors that suggested sounds. Best known as an abstract painter, his style ranged from the classic regionalism of the 1930s (WPA murals) to abstractions based on the dynamic symmetry theories he learned from Jay Hambidge, tempered by Roerich's Russian mysticism. Indeed, Bisttram would often speak of his association with Nicholas Roerich at the Master Institute in New York City, citing a story where the Russian master handed him a handful of wider brushes for his birthday thus indicating that... Read full biography
Hungarian born, Emil Bisttram became one of the Southwest's leading painters and teachers. He was a founder of the Transcendental Art movement in New Mexico, devoted to themes exploring and promoting universal meaning that included idealistic forms and colors that suggested sounds. Best known as an abstract painter, his style ranged from the classic regionalism of the 1930s (WPA murals) to abstractions based on the dynamic symmetry theories he learned from Jay Hambidge, tempered by Roerich's Russian mysticism. Indeed, Bisttram would often speak of his association with Nicholas Roerich at the Master Institute in New York City, citing a story where the Russian master handed him a handful of wider brushes for his birthday thus indicating that he should employ broader strokes in his paintings. He received his artistic training in New York at the Nationa... Read full biography
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- Women Artists of Santa FeOctober 2004Grauer, Michael RAmerican Art Review
- Taos Past & PresentOctober 2003Indyke, DottieSouthwest Art
- Art Events-New MexicoJune 2003Bucher, KristinSouthwest Art
- Report from Arizona-Not a MirageDecember 2002Rubinstein, RaphaelArt in America
- Modernists in TaosDecember 2002Witt, David L.American Art Review
- Painters and the American WestOctober 2000Troccoli, Joan CarpenterAmerican Art Review
- Mixing the New and OldJuly 1999May, StephenSouthwest Art
- Trauma, Tradition, and TransformatMay 1999May, StephenSouthwest Art
- Good Buys in the Historic MarketJanuary 1998Brown, MagaretSouthwest Art
- The Transcendental Painting GroupDecember 1997Blankenship, TiskaAmerican Art Review
- Bottom LineMarch 1996Brown, Margaret LSouthwest Art