An Italian, a Russian, Three Germans and a Founder of the New York School

Filippino Lippi 1459-1504 

Ilya Repin 1850-1930

Anselm Kiefer 1945- 

Gerhard Richter 1932- 

Gottfried Helnwein 1948- 

Helen Frankenthaler 1928-2011

Glenn Hirsch, Instructor

Filippino Lippi1459-1504

Lippi served his apprenticeship with Botticelli.

self-portrait

Ilya Repin1850-1930

Some called him the Leo Tolstoy of Russian art.

He produced work slowly and carefully.

Anselm Kiefer1945-

straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac

Helen Frankenthaler1928-2011

A founder of the “New York School” of abstract expressionist painting.

“I wanted things that I couldn't at times articulate.”

Gerhard Richter1932-

Richter follows the examples of Picasso and Jean Arp in undermining the artist’s obligation to maintain a single cohesive style.

He produces his work “in series” for each style.

Oil on aluminum

Gottfried Helnwein1948-

Austrian painter, photographer, performance artist.

His realistic work touches on the intersection of psychological and sociological anxiety,

historical issues (police violence or Germany and the Holocaust), and the plight of wounded children.