Gabriel Laderman
| Gabriel Laderman | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 26, 1929 Brooklyn, New York, USA |
| Died | March 10, 2011 (aged 81) Manhattan, New York City, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Brooklyn College, Hans Hofmann, Stanley William Hayter, Willem de Kooning, Alfred Russell |
| Known for | Figurative art |
Gabriel Laderman (December 26, 1929 – March 10, 2011) was a New York painter and an early and important exponent of the Figurative revival of the 1950s and '60s.
He studied with a number of leading American painters, including Hofmann, de Kooning, and Rothko.
In 1948 he began by doing the exercises in Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook, which at the time was available only in the original Bauhaus edition in German.
In the summer of 1949 he went to Provincetown and studied with Hans Hofmann. Since he already knew about abstract expressionist painting (Willem de Kooning had had his first show) he began painting in that tradition, informed with what Hofmann had taught about forming.
He met de Kooning that summer and began to show him his work in September of that year on a regular basis, while also attending Brooklyn College where he studied with Ad Reinhardt, Alfred Russell, Mark Rothko, Burgoyne Diller, Jimmy Ernst, Stanley William Hayter and Robert J. Wolff (the chairman of the department).
He also began to go to Hayter's Atelier 17, which he used as a shop for printing his engraved and etched plates.
About his Brooklyn College years, Laderman said:
After graduating from Brooklyn, he spent a year as a graduate student in art history in the New York University Institute of Fine Arts. There, he studied Asian art and 14th century Italian art. Both traditions influenced his later work.
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