biographie de Andre RACZ (1916-1994)

Birth place: Cluj, Romania

Addresses: Demarest, NJ; NYC

Profession: Painter, educator, engraver

Studied: Univ Bucharest, BA, 1935.

Exhibited: NYC, 1943 (solo); Art of this Century, 1944; MOMA Traveling Exh., 1944-46; LOC, 1945, 1946; NAD, 1945; Phila., 1945 (solo); WMAA, 1949, 1962; PAFA Ann., 1953; 50 Yrs Am Art, MOMA, Paris, London, Belgrade & Barcelona, 1955; First Int Biennial, Mex, 1958; First Biennial Relig Art, Salzburg, Austria, 1958; Int Watercolor Biennial, Brooklyn Mus, 1961; Nat Inst Arts & Lett, New York, 1968. Awards: Guggenheim fel printmaking, 1956; Fulbright res scholar, Chile, 1957; Ford Found fel, 1962.

Member: Soc Am Graphic Artists; Am Asn Univ Prof.

Work: MOMA; WMAA; NYPL; LOC; Bibliot Nat, Paris.

Comments: Teaching: Prof painting & chmn div painting & sculpture, Columbia Univ, 1951-. Publications: Auth, The Reign of Claws, 1945; XII Prophets of Aleijadinho, 1947; Via Crucis,1948; Mother and Child, 1949; Canciones Negras, 1953.

Sources: WW73; WW47; Carmen Valle, Poets on Painters and Sculptors (Tiger's Eye, 1949); Rosamel del Valle, Una Tarde con el Pintor Andre Racz," Nacion (1949); Antonio Romera, Andre Racz Pintor y Grabador (Ed Pacifico, 1950); Falk, Exh. Record Series.