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Diana Kurz Art

American, Austrian, b. 1938
Diana Kurz was born in Vienna, Austria, came to the US in 1940 and lives in Soho, NYC. She has been an exhibiting representational painter since the 1970s. Her subject matter includes monumental figure paintings, landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and animal imagery, and an important series of works on the theme of the Holocaust. Color is of primary importance in her work. Her preferred medium is oil on linen canvas, and she also works with watercolor and pastel on paper. Her art has been widely exhibited in solo and group shows in museums and galleries throughout the United States and Europe, and is in many distinguished collections including The Corcoran Gallery of Art; Rose Art Museum; Smith College Museum of Art ; Wien Museum, Vienna; The Jewish Museum of Vienna; Yad Vashem Art Museum, Jerusalem; Bezirksmuseum Josefstadt, Vienna; Brooklyn Botanic Garden; Rowan University, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Wash. DC and other public and private collections. She has received numerous grants and awards including, among others:, a Fulbright Fellowship to France; American Center Residency in Paris; New York State Council on the Arts CAPS Grant; VCCA/Austrian Federal Ministry of the Arts Artist-In-Residence in Vienna; Atlantic Center for the Arts and artist residencies at Hambidge Center, Atlantic Center for theArts, , Yaddo, McDowell Colony, VCCA among others.. She has taught studio art at Queens College, Pratt Institute, Philadelphia College of Art, Cleveland Institute of Art, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Colorado, Boulder, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Kurz received her B.A. from Brandeis University and M.F.A. from Columbia University
(Biography provided by Alpha 137 Gallery)
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Artist: Diana Kurz
Untitled, Abstracted Studio Interior
By Diana Kurz
Located in Lawrence, NY
The story of the post-WWII New York School artists is still being written. The role of women in the art of the day still needs examination and study. Kur...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Diana Kurz Art

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#8
By Diana Kurz
Located in Lawrence, NY
The story of the post-WWII New York School artists is still being written. The role of women in the art of the day still needs examination and study. Kur...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Diana Kurz Art

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Clifford
By Diana Kurz
Located in Lawrence, NY
The story of the post-WWII New York School artists is still being written. The role of women in the art of the day still needs examination and study. Kur...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Diana Kurz Art

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Window
By Diana Kurz
Located in Lawrence, NY
The story of the post-WWII New York School artists is still being written. The role of women in the art of the day still needs examination and study. Kur...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Diana Kurz Art

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Large Thelo
By Diana Kurz
Located in Lawrence, NY
The story of the post-WWII New York School artists is still being written. The role of women in the art of the day still needs examination and study. Kurz is one such example. Diana Kurz (b. 1938) was born into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family whose business was Aryanized after the Anschluss forcing the family to flee, first to Spain, then across Europe, and finally to the United States. Brought up as a "normal" American girl, Kurz always wanted to be an artist. She studied at Brandeis, at Hunter with Robert Motherwell and received her MFA from Columbia. She received instruction from Hans Hoffmann, studied with Phillip Guston...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Diana Kurz Art

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Thelo #8
By Diana Kurz
Located in Lawrence, NY
The story of the post-WWII New York School artists is still being written. The role of women in the art of the day still needs examination and study. Kur...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Diana Kurz Art

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C17
By Diana Kurz
Located in Lawrence, NY
The story of the post-WWII New York School artists is still being written. The role of women in the art of the day still needs examination and study. Kurz is one such example. Diana Kurz (b. 1938) was born into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family whose business was Aryanized after the Anschluss forcing the family to flee, first to Spain, then across Europe, and finally to the United States. Brought up as a "normal" American girl, Kurz always wanted to be an artist. She studied at Brandeis, at Hunter with Robert Motherwell and received her MFA from Columbia. She received instruction from Hans Hoffmann, studied with Phillip Guston...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Diana Kurz Art

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G3
By Diana Kurz
Located in Lawrence, NY
The story of the post-WWII New York School artists is still being written. The role of women in the art of the day still needs examination and study. Kurz is one such example. Diana Kurz (b. 1938) was born into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family whose business was Aryanized after the Anschluss forcing the family to flee, first to Spain, then across Europe, and finally to the United States. Brought up as a "normal" American girl, Kurz always wanted to be an artist. She studied at Brandeis, at Hunter with Robert Motherwell and received her MFA from Columbia. She received instruction from Hans Hoffmann, studied with Phillip Guston...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Diana Kurz Art

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Untitled
By Diana Kurz
Located in Lawrence, NY
The story of the post-WWII New York School artists is still being written. The role of women in the art of the day still needs examination and study. Kurz is one such example. Diana Kurz (b. 1938) was born into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family whose business was Aryanized after the Anschluss forcing the family to flee, first to Spain, then across Europe, and finally to the United States. Brought up as a "normal" American girl, Kurz always wanted to be an artist. She studied at Brandeis, at Hunter with Robert Motherwell and received her MFA from Columbia. She received instruction from Hans Hoffmann, studied with Phillip Guston and Phillip Pearlstein...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Diana Kurz Art

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Dix/Dixie
By Diana Kurz
Located in New York, NY
Diana Kurz Dix/Dixie, 2020 Oil on linen painting Hand signed on the front, side and back: with initials on the front; full signature on the back, and on the side 10 × 8 × 1 1/2 inches Unique This is one of the winning works in the competition Pets of the Pandemic, juried by art historian David Cohen, publisher and editor of Artcritical magazine, who cited Dix/Dixie for special commendation - stating it is "as adorable as a Renoir...
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2010s Realist Diana Kurz Art

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Oil

Interior
By Diana Kurz
Located in Lawrence, NY
The story of the post-WWII New York School artists is still being written. The role of women in the art of the day still needs examination and study. Kurz is one such example. Diana Kurz (b. 1938) was born into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family whose business was Aryanized after the Anschluss forcing the family to flee, first to Spain, then across Europe, and finally to the United States. Brought up as a "normal" American girl, Kurz always wanted to be an artist. She studied at Brandeis, at Hunter with Robert Motherwell and received her MFA from Columbia. She received instruction from Hans Hoffmann, studied with Phillip Guston and Phillip Pearlstein...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Diana Kurz Art

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RO
By Diana Kurz
Located in Lawrence, NY
The story of the post-WWII New York School artists is still being written. The role of women in the art of the day still needs examination and study. Kurz is one such example. Diana Kurz (b. 1938) was born into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family whose business was Aryanized after the Anschluss forcing the family to flee, first to Spain, then across Europe, and finally to the United States. Brought up as a "normal" American girl, Kurz always wanted to be an artist. She studied at Brandeis, at Hunter with Robert Motherwell and received her MFA from Columbia. She received instruction from Hans Hoffmann, studied with Phillip Guston and Phillip Pearlstein...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Diana Kurz Art

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Oil

Summer Joy
By Diana Kurz
Located in Lawrence, NY
The story of the post-WWII New York School artists is still being written. The role of women in the art of the day still needs examination and study. Kurz is one such example. Diana Kurz (b. 1938) was born into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family whose business was Aryanized after the Anschluss forcing the family to flee, first to Spain, then across Europe, and finally to the United States. Brought up as a "normal" American girl, Kurz always wanted to be an artist. She studied at Brandeis, at Hunter with Robert Motherwell and received her MFA from Columbia. She received instruction from Hans Hoffmann, studied with Phillip Guston and Phillip Pearlstein...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Diana Kurz Art

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Oil

BGG
By Diana Kurz
Located in Lawrence, NY
The story of the post-WWII New York School artists is still being written. The role of women in the art of the day still needs examination and study. Kurz is one such example. Diana Kurz (b. 1938) was born into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family whose business was Aryanized after the Anschluss forcing the family to flee, first to Spain, then across Europe, and finally to the United States. Brought up as a "normal" American girl, Kurz always wanted to be an artist. She studied at Brandeis, at Hunter with Robert Motherwell and received her MFA from Columbia. She received instruction from Hans Hoffmann, studied with Phillip Guston and Phillip Pearlstein...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Diana Kurz Art

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Oil

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