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ROTHKO Mark, (Markus Rothkowitz), born 1903 Dvinsk (Lithuania) - 1970 New York. Lithuanian-born American painter. |
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| 1910 | Moved with his family to Oregon. | |||||||||||||
| 1921-23 | Studied at Yale University, New Haven, and | |||||||||||||
| 1924-29 | under M. Weber at the Art Students League in New York. | |||||||||||||
| 1935 | Founded the Expressionist group with Adolf Gottlieb 'The Ten'. | |||||||||||||
| 1938 | Showed interest in Surrealism and studied Greek mythology, metaphysics, C. G. Jung's theory of archetypes, and primitive art. | |||||||||||||
| 1947 | First paintings with floating forms. | |||||||||||||
| 1949 | With Bazioies, Motherwell and Newman, started the Subject of the Artist School, which closed in 1950. | |||||||||||||
| 1951-54 | Taught at the successor to this school (Studio 35) until 1955, and at Brooklyn College as an assistant professor from 1951-1954. | |||||||||||||
| 1959 | Participation in documenta 2 in Kassel. | |||||||||||||
| 1960 | He began to use even darker colours. | |||||||||||||
| 1964 | He decorated a chapel designed by Philip Johnson for the De Menil family in Houston. | |||||||||||||
| 1970 | Suicide. | |||||||||||||
With his meditative paintings, Rothko is among the most important of the Color Field painters. |
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