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Abraham Rattner

Abraham Rattner (1893 - 1978) was active/lived in New York, Pennsylvania / France.  Abraham Rattner is known for Cubist figure-genre and non objective painting.

Abraham Rattner, known for his rich, Rouault-like color, was born in 1893 in Poughkeepsie, New York. Though he would later meet Claude Monet when studying in Paris, Rattner was temperamentally and stylistically attuned to Georges Rouault and Pablo Picasso.

Initially combining study of architecture at George Washington University, Washington, D.C., with painting classes at the Corcoran School of Art, he quickly decided to concentrate on painting.

In light of his later segmented style, and given the fragmented, patchy nature of camouflage in his breaking up the contours of forms on canvas, it is interesting that Rattner would have been a specialist in camouflage for the army during World War I.

He had begun study at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts* in 1917 before the war interrupted that endeavor. After the war, he attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts* in Paris as the result of a traveling fellowship from the Academy.  He would   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6525 characters.]  Artist bio

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