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Albert Kotin (August 7, 1907 – February 6, 1980) belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic, including in Paris.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Art history )〕 The New York School Abstract Expressionism, represented by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and others became a leading art movement of the post-World War II era. ==Biography== Albert Kotin was born August 7, 1907 in Minsk, Tsarist Russia and emigrated to the USA in 1908. He became a US citizen in 1923. Kotin studied: (1924–1929) at the National Academy of Design, New York City; with Charles Hawthorne, Provincetown, Massachusetts; (1929–32) at the Académie Julian, the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and at the Atelier de Fresque and Colarossi, Paris, France; (1947–1951) at The Art Students League of New York, New York City; under the GI Bill he went to study with Hans Hofmann in Provincetown and in New York City. He participated in the Federal Art Project: Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) (1933–34) and Works Progress Administration/Federal Art Project (WPA/FAP) (1935–40). Kotin won competitions that were funded through commissions under the Treasury Department's Section of Painting and Sculpture (later known as The Section of Fine Arts) in Ada, Ohio,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=New Deal WPA Art in Ohio )〕 and in Arlington, New Jersey.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=New Jersey New Deal Art )〕 He completed two WPA murals, ''The City'' and ''The Marsh'' for the Kearney, New Jersey post office in 1938. Kotin served in the U.S. Army military service during World War II (1941–1945). After the war Kotin found a studio on 10th Street. He soon joined the "Downtown Group"〔Downtown Group〕 which represented a group of artists who found studios in lower Manhattan in the area bounded by 8th and 12th street between First and Sixth Avenues during the late 1940s and early 1950s. These artists were called the "Downtown Group" as opposed to the "Uptown Group" established during the war at The Art of This Century Gallery. In 1949 Kotin joined the "Artists' Club"〔''Artists' Club''〕 located at 39 East 8th Street. Albert Kotin was chosen by his fellow artists to show in the Ninth Street Show held on May 21 – June 10, 1951.〔(9th Street Show Poster )〕 The show was located at 60 East 9th Street on the first floor and the basement of a building which was about to be demolished. "The artists celebrated not only the appearance of the dealers, collectors and museum people on the 9th Street, and the consequent exposure of their work but they celebrated the creation and the strength of a living community of significant dimensions." 〔Bruce Altshuler, (''Avant-Garde In Exhibition New Art in the 20th Century,'' ) New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994, Chapter 9, p.171〕 Kotin participated in all the invitational New York Painting and Sculpture Annuals. The first annual in 1951 was called the Ninth Street Show. From 1953 to 1957 the invitational New York Painting and Sculpture Annuals were held in the Stable Gallery on West 58th Street in New York City.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=New York school : abstract expressionists : artists choice by artists : a complete documentation of the New York painting and sculpture annuals, 1951–1957 )〕 He was among the 24 out of a total 256 New York School artists who was included in all the Annuals.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Albert Kotin Posters )〕 These Annuals were important because the participants were chosen by the artists themselves.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=New York school : abstract expressionists : artists choice by artists : a complete documentation of the New York painting and sculpture annuals, 1951–1957 )〕 Harold Rosenberg, New York art critic listed Albert Kotin among the "Tenth Street Artists: Individuals Prevail over the Group:" 〔Harold Rosenberg, "Tenth Street: A Geography of Modern Art", Art News Annual XXVIII, 1959, New York: Art Foundation Press, Inc. pp.:120–143〕 Kotin was exhibited by the Anita Shapolsky Gallery in New York City, McCormick Gallery, and Robert Miller Gallery-New York.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Albert Kotin )〕 Kotin was also a poet who inspired his fellow artists.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=American abstract expressionism of the 1950s : an illustrated survey with artists' statements, artwork and biographies )〕 Alexander Calder wrote in 1968, "As long as there are people such as Al Kotin, there is no danger to art."〔From a monograph by Mathias Goeritz: "Alexander Calder", 1968 Private Collection〕 Kotin died on February 6, 1980 in New York City from lung cancer. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Albert Kotin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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