Painter, born in New York City, USA. He studied painting at Cooper Union, New York City, and at Skowhegan School, ME. From 1959 he began making portraits of his friends in a deliberately gauche, naive style, simplifying forms and using a limited palette. These large-scale portraits, which have a directness bordering on kitsch, have been likened to cinematic images of film idols.
Alex Katz (born July 24, 1927) is an American figural artist associated with the Pop Art movement.
Katz was born in Brooklyn, New York. From 1946 to 1949 he studied at The Cooper Union in New York, and from 1949 to 1950 he studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine. In 1974 The Whitney Museum of American Art showed "Alex Katz Prints", followed by a traveling retrospective exhibition "Alex Katz" in 1986. His first show abroad was in 1995 - "Alex Katz: American Landscape" at Staatliche Kunsthalle in Baden-Baden, Germany. In October 1996, the Colby College Museum of Art opened a wing dedicated to Katz that features more than 400 oil paintings, collages, and prints donated by the artist.
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