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Norman Bluhm |
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| Norman Bluhm (March
28, 1921-February 3, 1999), was an American painter classified
as abstract expressionist. He was born on March 28, 1921
in Chicago, Illinois. He studied
under Mies van der Rohe at the then Armour (now Illinois)
Institute of Technology. After service in World War II with
the USAAF he decided not
to resume his architectural studies. Rather he studied art
at the Academia de Belle Arte, Florence, Italy and at the
Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.
Throughout the 1940s and 1950s he lived in Paris. He had
numerous friends in art, literature, and other creative fields.
Among his close acquaintances
were Joan Mitchell, Sam Francis, Jean Paul Riopelle, Zao
Wou-ki and others. He was married to Claude Souvrain until
1956. He returned to the United
States in 1956. He married Carolyn Ogle in 1961. They lived
in New York City until 1969 with their two children, David
and Nina. From 1970 to
1980 they lived in Millbrook, New York. From 1980 to 1987
they lived in East Hampton, New York. Thereafter, they lived
in East Wallingford,
Vermont until Bluhm's death on February 3, 1999. |
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