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Carl Robert Holty

Carl Robert Holty (1900 - 1973) was active/lived in New York / France.  Carl Holty is known for Modernist genre-views-figure, abstract geometric painting, teaching.

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Known for his floating, luminous, highly-colorful forms, Carl Holty belongs to the school of pure geometric abstract artists, none more renowned than Piet Mondrian.

Holty, a native of Germany, came to the United States as an infant and grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the National Academy of Design in New York, and then went to Munich to enroll in the Hans Hofmann School where he was exposed to Abstract Expressionism.  Holty's early work also shows the influence of Fauvist colors and the work of French artists Maurice de Vlaminck and André Derain.

In Europe, Holty began featuring more biomorphic forms in his work and elements reflective of the Organic Surrealism of Joan Miro.  By the late 1950s, he had developed his enduring subject matter large, soft-edged color forms that mix with, and float on, a lush chromatic stain.

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Carl Robert Holty


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Collage and/or Decoupage
  • Easel Painting
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art MediaArt Style
  • Abstract Expressionism
  • Abstraction, Abstract
  • Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
  • Non Objective
  • Pure Abstraction, Line, Shape, Color, Texture
Art Subject
  • Animals, Mammals
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
  • Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
  • New York City
  • Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
  • Urban Landscape, Cityscape
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Africa
  • Central Park, New York City
Art Association
  • American Abstract Artists-
  • Audubon Society of Artists-
Art Teacher
  • Hans Hofmann
Art School
  • Art Students League of New York, Teacher
  • Hans Hofmann School of Art, Student
  • National Academy of Design School, New York, Student
  • Parsons, The New School for Design, Student
  • School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
Awards/Recognition
  • Emily Lowe Memorial Award, National Academy of Design
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
  • Abstraction Specialty
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Figure Specialty
  • Genre Specialty
Ethnicity of Artist
  • German
Exhibition of Art Association
  • Audubon Society of Artists
  • National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
  • Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art

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