Mark RothkoBy Editor. 07.12.2009Mark Rothko, real name Markus Rotkovich (1903 – 1970), is one of the most important artists of the 20th century with world fame, whose name is connected with Latvia. Rothko is one of the central figures of post-war painting in the USA, representing together with Barnett Newman and Clyfford Still the so-called abstract expressionism branch of the New York school. He was born in Daugavpils, Latvia on September 25, 1903. The family emigrated to the USA when the boy was 10, and settled in Portland, Oregon in 1913. In 1921 Rothko entered Yale University, but two years later moved to New York where he studied with Max Weber at the Art Students’ League, where he was introduced to cubism and the works of Paul Cezanne. In 1958, Rothko had his first commission – monumental paintings for the NY restaurant “The Four Seasons”. In 1961, the NY Modern Art Museum organized his solo exhibition, which was the peak of his creative life, and the exhibition toured the biggest cities of Europe. In 1962, he finished a series of wall paintings at Harvard University, and in 1964 started out on another commission – wall paintings at Huston Chapel (Texas), which was opened in 1971, a year after Rothko had decided to end his life in suicide in his New York studio.
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