Gerome Kamrowski
Visual Artist
1914 – 2004
Who was Gerome Kamrowski?
Gerome Kamrowski was an American artist and participant in the Surrealist Movement in the United States.
He was born in Warren, Minnesota and begun to study art in the early 1930s at the St. Paul School of Art, and later to the New Bauhaus in Chicago. He then moved to New York to study with Hans Hofmann, where he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship.
In the late 1930s and early 1940s he lived in New York and had been working with surrealist automatism for several years. Kamrowski became an integral part of the emerging surrealists and collaborated with William Baziotes, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock and Roberto Matta. This group was the kernel of the open-ended movement that was referred to as abstract surrealism and would over time prove to be the beginnings of abstract expressionism.
Gerome Kamrowski was one of the few American artists to be included in Peggy Guggenheim's The Art of This Century Gallery in 1943. He also had shows at Museum of Modern Art in New York 1951, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and at the Whitney Museum of Modern Art at several occasions. His work can also be seen in the Joe Louis Arena station of the Detroit People Mover [1].
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- Born
- Jan 29, 1914
Warren - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Employment
- University of Michigan
- Lived in
- Ann Arbor
- Died
- Mar 27, 2004
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on July 23, 2013
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