GROSS-BETTELHEIM, Jolán
Jolán Gross-Bettelheim is renowned for her Depression-era cityscapes, industrial scenes, and WWII subjects. Repeated patterns and forceful diagonals enhance the dramatic impact.
The Hungarian-born Gross-Bettelheim lived in the U.S. from 1925-1956. She studied painting at the Budapest School of Fine Art, the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna, the Akademie der Bildenden Künst in Berlin, and the Académie de Grande Chaumière in Paris from 1922-24. In 1925 she married a Hungarian-born doctor, Frigyes Bettelheim and settled in Cleveland, relocating to New York City in 1938. Her work was widely exhibited in the U.S. throughout the 1930s and 40s. She returned to Hungary after 1956 where she died in 1972. Her bold lithographs reflect the early modernist influences of German Expressionism, Constructivism, and Cubism.
Her modernist prints often render recognizable, contemporary settings yet they usually were highly abstracted, influenced by the avant-garde art she had encountered in Europe: Cubism, Futurism, and Constructivism.
She simultaneously celebrated the curves and fluidity of the structures while recoiling from the harsh intrusion of daily life.
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