Otto Neumann: His Life and Work

Sokol, David M.

ISBN 10: 0978927001 / ISBN 13: 9780978927004

Published by Prologue Press, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Otto Neumann: His Life and Work
• Publisher: Prologue Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0978927001
• ISBN 13: 9780978927004
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Today, Neumann is best known for his subtly hued woodcuts and monotypes of human, animal, and abstract forms, created in the last twenty-five years of his life. But, in addition to the range shown in these brilliant pieces, a critical part of the artist's evolution is displayed in his other, earlier works: his series of graphic illustrations based on Dante's Divine Comedy; his rich, colorful portraits in oil and watercolor; the frightening grotesques he created during Germany's calamitous late 1920s; his Cezanne-inspired, watercolor still lifes; and his linoleum prints basedon Edvard Munch's creation myth, Alpha and Omega. Otto Neumann: His Life and Work brings to light the career of a significant, overlooked artist and places his work within the proper context of great twentieth-century art.

About the Author

David M. Sokol, Ph.D., has had a forty-year career as a professor of art history and a museum professional. he earned his Ph.D. at New York Unviersity, taught in New York City, and has taught in the Department of Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago since 1971. He continues to direct the Museum Studies program he founded more than thirty years ago. He has served as the curator of the Otto Neumann Estate for the last twenty-five years. He resides in Chicago, IL.