Gottleib, Adolph

1903-1974
Gottleib, Adolph Biography

American abstract expressionist painter. After study at the Art Students League of New York and in Paris, Adolph Gottlieb returned to New York in 1923 to attend Parsons School of Design, Cooper Union, and the Educational Alliance Art School.
Under the influence of European surrealism, from 1941 to 1951 he painted a series of works called pictographs, in which grids form compartments filled with symbols based on fantasy and the unconscious, one example of which is his Voyager's Return (1946, Museum of Modern Art, New York City). The oil paintings in his Imaginary Landscape series (1951-1956) are partial abstractions, divided by a horizon line and containing sunlike disks or ovoids. Gottleib's later Burst series (after 1957) contains large exploding orbs of color reminiscent of solar bodies.

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