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Gustave Kaitz - Conceptual Deco Art
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The singular art of Gustave Kaitz may be described as a highly stylized wellspring of illusion, imagery and symbolism. Gustave Kaitz died in December of 1992 and is considered the last American Art Deco artist of the twentieth century. He leaves behind an extraordinary collection of over 150 paintings and sketches spanning seven decades.
Born in Brooklyn in 1913, the son of Eastern European Jewish immigrants, Gustave Kaitz started painting professionally as a teen-ager, selling his Art Deco originals to Gim bel's and Fortunoff department stores. At the same time he was also selling his paintings to individuals, private shops and Greenwich Village galleries. As a young man he attended the Art Student's League while maintaining his own studio. He started to develop his own style at a young age beginning with a six fold media of water colors, pastels and pencil, painted on board which he perfected through the years. He is best known for his Gatsby Girl, and stylized nudes.
Kaitz's mythologies are peopled in celestial beings -- women who are not really women at all; they are goddesses, Electra or Spiritus, or mythical subjects like Leda and the Swan, Lake Goddess, and his well-known work The Gatsby Girl, illusions beyond the confines of time. They are intellectual concepts, more than tangible creatures of beauty. At the age of seventeen, Kaitz created Sacrifice, woman of universal bondage, acclaimed as one of his great ritual achievements.
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