KURT LEWY
Member of "Abstract Art" founded in 1952
Member of "Abstract Art" founded in 1952
Kurt Lewy (Essen 1898 - Freiburg im Breisgau 1963)
"Composition" 1956, watercolour on paper, 30 x 20 cm
Former collection of art critic Léon-Louis Sosset, author of a monography about Kurt Lewy
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Former collection of art critic Léon-Louis Sosset, author of a monography about Kurt Lewy
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"Composition" 1956, mixed media on paper, 17,5 x 25 cm
Available, call 02 539.23.09 or mail [email protected]
Available, call 02 539.23.09 or mail [email protected]
"Untitled" 1962, mixed media on paper, 28 x 21,5 cm
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"Abstract composition" 1960, Pastel, watercolour & washed ink on paper, 40 x 50 cm
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"Composition no 198" 1963, Oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm
Exhibited at Square Gallery, Milan & Galerie Bar-Gera, Cologne
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Exhibited at Square Gallery, Milan & Galerie Bar-Gera, Cologne
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"Composition no 208" 1963, Oil on canvas, h 90 x 130 cm
Monogram KL and date lower right. Signed and dated at the back of the canvas
Museum exhibitions in Essen, Moers, Osnabrück, Düsseldorf and Bochum, 1986-87
Illustration in the catalogue "Kurt Lewy : Leben und Werk"
Exhibitions : Square Gallery, Milano, 1971, Gallery Cyan, Liège, Magnus Fine Arts, Ghent, Le Sacre du Printemps, Brussels
Former collection Harry Oppenheimer (1908-2000), Johannesburg
former President of Anglo American Corporation and De Beers Consolidated Mines
Litterature : Kurt Lewy, Leben und Werk, Essen 1986
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Monogram KL and date lower right. Signed and dated at the back of the canvas
Museum exhibitions in Essen, Moers, Osnabrück, Düsseldorf and Bochum, 1986-87
Illustration in the catalogue "Kurt Lewy : Leben und Werk"
Exhibitions : Square Gallery, Milano, 1971, Gallery Cyan, Liège, Magnus Fine Arts, Ghent, Le Sacre du Printemps, Brussels
Former collection Harry Oppenheimer (1908-2000), Johannesburg
former President of Anglo American Corporation and De Beers Consolidated Mines
Litterature : Kurt Lewy, Leben und Werk, Essen 1986
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Kurt Lewy at work on "Composition no 208" in 1963, one of his last works
Kurt Lewy was born in Essen, Germany in 1898. He studied at the Folkwangschule in Essen and from 1919 to 1923 at the college of applied arts in Berlin. He went on to study enamel sculpture in Pforzheim in 1924. Lewy taught graphic arts at the Folkwangschule from 1929 to 1933. In 1935 Kurt Lewy settled in Brussels, where he was arrested in 1940. He escaped from prison in 1942 and returned to Brussels where he kept in hiding for several months. He was arrested a second time in 1944 and imprisoned in Malines until the liberation of Belgium.
His oeuvre was first influenced by the german expressionists. After the war, Kurt Lewy started to paint geometric abstract works and became a member of the belgian group "Abstract art" founded by Jo Delahaut in 1952. Lewy obtained the belgian citizenship in 1951.
In 1959 the artist executed the stained glass works of the synagogue of Essen. Kurt Lewy died in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1963.
Main exhibitions : Essen, Folkwang museum 1926, 1960 ; Breslau, Jewish museum 1934; Aachen, Suermondt museum 1955; Düsseldorf, Kunsthalle 1955 ; Brussels, Gallery Apollo, 1946, 1954 ; Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1952 ; London, Brookstreet Art Gallery 1929, Drian Galleries 1963 ; Basel 1934, Davos 1934 ; New York, Meltzer Gallery 1959 ; Jewish museum Brussels 2020-21.
His oeuvre was first influenced by the german expressionists. After the war, Kurt Lewy started to paint geometric abstract works and became a member of the belgian group "Abstract art" founded by Jo Delahaut in 1952. Lewy obtained the belgian citizenship in 1951.
In 1959 the artist executed the stained glass works of the synagogue of Essen. Kurt Lewy died in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1963.
Main exhibitions : Essen, Folkwang museum 1926, 1960 ; Breslau, Jewish museum 1934; Aachen, Suermondt museum 1955; Düsseldorf, Kunsthalle 1955 ; Brussels, Gallery Apollo, 1946, 1954 ; Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1952 ; London, Brookstreet Art Gallery 1929, Drian Galleries 1963 ; Basel 1934, Davos 1934 ; New York, Meltzer Gallery 1959 ; Jewish museum Brussels 2020-21.