Vaclav Vytlacil

Vaclav Vytlacil was born in New York City, November 1, 1892 and died in New York City, January 5, 1984.[1] He was an American Abstract painter and teacher at the Art Students League in New York City and one of the founders of the American Abstract Artists group. An influence on such artists as Louise Bourgeois, Willem de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Cy Twombly, Knox Martin, and Tony Smith among others. Mr. Vytlacil was also a student and an assistant to Hans Hofmann. He has been ranked alongside top modernist painters including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Ben Shahn, and others by a variety of critics, including Howard Devree of the New York Times.[2] After his death, his daughter Anne gave his estate in Rockland County to The Art Students League of New York.

Vaclav Vytlacil also taught at such prestigious schools as Black Mountain College, The Art Institute of Chicago and Columbia University. His works are in the collections of many prestigious museums including The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Among his pupils was the sculptor Dorothy Rieber Joralemon.[3] His student Frank O'Cain continues to teach painting, design and color composition according to Vytlacil's theoretical principals at the Art Students League of New York.

References

  1. ↑ "Vaclav Vytlacil, Artist; Began Abstract Group". 11 January 1984. Retrieved 2 June 2017 – via NYTimes.com.
  2. ↑ "About Vaclav Vytlacil". 14 March 2016. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  3. ↑ Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein (1990). American women sculptors: a history of women working in three dimensions. G.K. Hall. ISBN 978-0-8161-8732-4.


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