Harvey Konigsberg Art

Harvey Konigsberg was born in New York City in 1940. He studied Art at New York University and the University of Miami. After completing his university studies in 1964, Konigsberg returned to New York City to begin a long and successful career as an artist. During the mid to late 1960s, while Konigsberg was working on his famous Whale series of paintings, and on his less well known Jazz series, he, and his part-Cherokee fashion-designer wife (Patti Konigsberg) were central figures in a dynamic group of aspiring young New York painters, writers, and designers known as the Konigsberg Group. In the late 1960s, the Konigsbergs moved briefly to Montreal, where they quickly rose to social prominence through friendships with English Canadian luminaries such as Leonard Cohen and Irving Leighton. Shortly after Konigsberg's brilliant first Canadian show in 1970 (Gallerie D'Youville, Montreal), the Konigsbergs again returned to New York. Through the 1970s, Konigsberg's art career flourished, with frequent one-man shows at galleries such as Starkman (NYC), Dallas (Texas) and Runyon-Winchell (NYC).