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Ludwig Sander
(
American
, 1906–1975)
Ludwig Sander
Untitled geometric abstraction,
1970
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Biography
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Timeline
1906
Born: Staten Island, NY
1931 - 1932
Studied painting with Hans Hoffman, Munich, Germany
1932 - 1935
Studied at the Art Students League under Alexander Archipenko, George Elmer Brown, and Boardman Robinson, New York, NY
1949
Co-founded "The Club", with Willem DeKooning, Franz Kline, and Ad Reinhardt, New York, NY
1952 - 1953
Taught at Fine Arts College, Colorado Springs, CO
1952
BA, New York University, New York, NY
1956 - 1958
Taught at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
1975
Died: New York, NY
Exhibitions
2009
Abstract Ensemble, ACA Galleries, New York, NY
2008
Raymond Hendler and artists from his ‘avant garde’ Circle, Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Geometric Abstraction and Color Function: Two Generations, D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc., New York, NY
2003
Painting Explosion - 1958 1963, Part I, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
2001
Geometric Forms in Abstraction, American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich, Germany
1992
ACA Galleries, New York, NY (solo)
1989
Abstraction. Geometry. Painting; Selected Geometric Abstract Painting in America since 1945, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1985
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY (solo)
Constrast of Form: Geometric Abstract Art 1910-1980, Museum of Modern Art, NY
1982
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY (solo)
1980
17 Abstract Artists of East Hampton: The Pollock Years, 1946-56, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
1977
Knoedler Contemporary Art, New York, NY (solo)
1975
The Berenson Gallery, Bay Harbour Islands, Miami, FL (solo)
Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC
1974
Knoedler Contemporary Art, New York, NY (solo)
Less is More: The Influence of the Bauhaus on American Art, University of Miami, Miami, FL
1973
Lawrence Rubin Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
The Whitney Museum of Art Annual, New York, NY
1972
Waddington Galleries, London, England (solo)
1971
Lawrence Rubin Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1970
Lawrence Rubin Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Form of Color, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
1969
Gimple and Hanover Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
A.M. Sachs Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1968
Plus by Minus, Today's Half Century, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1967
A.M. Sachs Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC
1965
Responsive Eye, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1964
Post Painterly Abstraction, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1963 - 1964
Hans Hofmann and His Students, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (traveling exhibition)
1962
Geometric Abstraction in America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
65th Annual American Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1961 - 1962
Recent American Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, circ., USA and Canada
1961
Abstract Expressionists and Imagists, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1959
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Tanager Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1953 - 1957
New York Painting and Sculpture Annual Exhibitions, Stable Gallery, New York, NY
1952
Hacker Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1951
Ninth Street Show, New York, NY
1930
Morton Gallery, New York, NY (first solo exhibition)
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Tate Britain, London, England
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, NY
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
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Literature
"Abstraction. Geometry. Painting; Selected Geometric Abstract Painting in America since 1945," Harry Abrams, NY, 1989
