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Ulfert WilkeCalligraphy (Mid Century Modern Abstraction)1969
1969
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Ulfert Wilke
Calligraphy, 1969
Lithograph on wove paper
12 1/2 × 8 1/2 inches
Edition of 264
Unframed
Signed and dated 1969 in pencil on the front; unnumbered from the limited edition of 264
Published by The Print Club of Cleveland publication No. 43
Ulfert Wilke Biography:
Ulfert Wilke (1907–1987) was an internationally recognized painter, museum director and art collector connected to the abstract expressionism movement. He was born in Bavaria, Germany, and immigrated to the United States in 1938. He is best known for his large canvas paintings and highly detailed lithographs that were inspired by calligraphic writing. Wilke was deeply intrigued by the written language, and much of his work was derived from his abstract interpretation of the shapes, colors and meanings of writing that he found in all languages and forms, including the poetry and ancient engravings of Asia and the Middle East. He was an avid art collector, particularly of tribal art, and was the founding director of the University of Iowa Museum of Art.
Wilke studied art at Harvard on a Carnegie scholarship before being drafted into the US Army in 1942. In 1947, he completed his master's degree in Art at the University of Iowa. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, Wilke was an art teacher and director at several universities and museums. He received the Guggenheim Fellowship twice (in 1959 and 1960), which he used to travel to work and study first in Munich and Rome, and later Kyoto, Japan where he lived in monastery and studied Japanese Zen calligraphy under the monks.
Wilke returned to the US in the 1960s. He lived in New York City at this time and worked as a professor at Rutgers University. This period defined Wilke as an artist, and it was during this time that he became connected to the great New York school of artists of the 1950s and 1960s. He maintained close relationships with many famed artist colleagues including Ad Reinhardt, Julius Bissier, George Rickey, Mark Rothko, Lyonel Feininger, Max Beckmann, Mark Tobey, Kenzo Okada, Robert Motherwell and David Smith.
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- Creator:Ulfert Wilke (1907 - 1987)
- Creation Year:1969
- Dimensions:Height: 12.5 in (31.75 cm)Width: 8.5 in (21.59 cm)
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- Condition:unframed.
- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU174529882032
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