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Fritz Bultman Biography
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1919 |
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Born, New Orleans, LA
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1931 - 1932 |
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Began his art studies at age 13 with artist Morris Graves, who was visiting New Orleans, LA
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1935 |
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Prep School Munich, Germany, met Hans Hoffman
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1937 |
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Studied at Chicago's New Bauhaus School
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1940 |
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Met Tennessee Williams in Provincetown, MA, Williams visited Bultman, Greenwich Village, NY in the 1940s
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1938 - 1942 |
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Studied under Hans Hoffman in New York and Provincetown, MA
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1943 |
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Married Jeanne Lawson, a dancer, in December in New York, NY
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1945 |
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Moved to Provincetown year-round
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1950 |
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Signed the historical and infamous "Irascibles" Letter to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, along with all the NY School painters: Barnett Newman, William Baziotes, Willem de Kooning, Jimmy Ernst, Adolph Gottlieb, Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko, Hans Hoffman, Ad Reinhardt, Richard Pousette-Dart, James Brooks, Theodoros Stamos, Hedda Sterne, Clyfford Still and Bradley Walker Tomlin.
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1951 |
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Bultman was studying sculpture in Italy at the time of the photo shoot for the famous Abstract Expressionist photograph, and was therefore not in the photo, published on January 15
Returned from Italy to Provincetown, MA
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1952 |
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Moved back to New York, NY
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1950 - 1957 |
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Member of the New York School of Abstract Expressionists
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1958 |
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Tennessee Williams visited the Bultman Family home in the Garden District of New Orleans, where he wrote and set the play 'Suddenly Last Summer'
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1950 - 1959 |
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Taught, Pratt Institute, New York, NY, 1950s
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1962 |
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Began to devote himself to collages, which would be his primary media for the next two decades
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1968 |
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Co-Founded the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, in Provincetown, MA
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1955 - 1969 |
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Visited friends Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock in East Hampton, NY
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1960 - 1969 |
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Taught at Hunter College, New York, NY, 1960s
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1985 |
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Died, Provincetown, MA
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2011
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Abstraction August 12 - September 1, 2011 Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA
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2011
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The Tides of Provincetown New Britain Museum, New Britain, CT / traveling exhibition
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2011
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Fritz Bultman - Torn Paper Collages June 3 - 23, 2011 Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown,MA(Solo)
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2010
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Fritz Bultman June 4 - 24, 2010 Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA (Solo)
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2009
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Jeanne and Fritz Bultman - A Provincetown Collection and Salon October 16 - November 29, 2009 Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
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2008
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Fritz Bultman - Drawings from the early 1960’s June 27 - July 10, 2008 Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA (Solo)
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2008
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"Abstraction: Summer 2008," Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
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2007
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"Stone Cold Classics," Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
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2007
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Fritz Bultman - Collages from the 1980’s August 3 - 16, 2007 Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA (Solo)
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2007
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Fritz Bultman - Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture and Collage March 8 - April 15, 2007 Reynolds Ryan Art Gallery, Isidore Newman School, New Orleans, Louisiana (Solo)
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2006
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Fritz Bultman - Small Paintings 1957 - 1961 August 4 - 17, 2006 Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA (Solo)
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2005
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Fritz Bultman - The Rhythm of the Line July 22 - August 4, 2005 Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA (Solo)
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2005
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"It's About Art.... :an evolving exhibition", Gallery Schlesinger, New York, May 03-28
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2004
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"Fritz Bultman: Irascible, II", Gallery Schlesinger, New York, Sept 23-Oct 23, (solo)
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2004
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Fritz Bultman July 16 - 29, 2004 Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA (Solo)
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2004
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Drawing June 18 - July 1, 2004 Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA
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2003
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Fritz Bultman - Rare Paintings from the Early 1960’s July 11 - 24, 2003 Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA (Solo)
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2003
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"Fritz Bultman: Irascible", Gallery Schlesinger, New York, March 4-29, (solo)
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, University of New Orleans, LA (solo)
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2001
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Fritz Bultman - Paintings, Collages, Drawings and Sculpture: 1953 - 1985 July 6 - 19, 2001 Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA (Solo)
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1998
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"No/Show... An Evolving Exhibition", Gallery Schlesinger, New York, Feb 26-March 31
"Fritz Bultman: Drawing from Life", Gallery Schlesinger, New York, April 2-30, (solo)
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1997
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"Fritz Bultman: Collages", Georgia Museum of Art (solo)
"No/Show... An Evolving Exhibition", Gallery Schlesinger, New York, Jan 1-31
"Fritz Bultman: Collages of The Sixties", Gallery Schlesinger, New York, Feb 1-March 1 (solo)
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1997
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Fritz Bultman - Collages November 1, 1997 - January 18, 1998 Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia (Solo)
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1993
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"FRITZ BULTMAN: A Retrospective", New Orleans Museum of Art, Aug 7-Oct 3, (solo)
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1985
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Retrospective exhibition, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
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1960
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Gallery Mayer, New York, NY (solo)
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1959
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Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1958
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Stable Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1952
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Kootz Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1950
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Exhibited at Hugo Gallery in New York (solo)
"Black or White" (group exhibition) Samuel Kootz Gallery, New York, NY (included both American Abstract Expressionists and important European modernists)
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1949
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Organized and exhibited in "Forum 49" group exhibition, Provincetown, MA
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| Literature |
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1997
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Firestone, Evan R. Fritz Bultman: Collages. Athens, GA: Georgia Museum of Art, 1997.
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1993
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Kingsley, April, et al. Fritz Bultman: A Retrospective. New Orleans: New Orleans Museum of Art, 1993.
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1948
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Bultman, Fritz. Sketchbook. C. 1948. Donald Windham Collection, New York.
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