Ad Reinhardt

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ad Reinhardt
Occupation	Painter
Date Of Birth	Dec 24, 1913(1913-12-24)
Age	111
Date Of Death	August 30, 1967, Manhattan, New York, NY
Birthplace	Buffalo
Country	United States
Birth City	New York State
Horoscope	Capricorn

Ad Reinhardt Biography

Ad Reinhardt is one of the most popular and richest Painter who was born on December 24, 1913 in Buffalo, New York State, United States. Abstract painter best known for his “ultimate” or “black” paintings. He belonged to the American Abstract Artists and was associated with the Betty Parsons Gallery, which became a center of the Abstract Expressionism movement.

He was influenced by Robert Motherwell.

He was born in Buffalo, New York. His family resided in the Riverside section next to the Niagara River.

Ad Reinhardt Net Worth

Ad Reinhardt is one of the richest Painter from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ad Reinhardt 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He attended Columbia University and the National Academy of Design, where he was a student of the famed Karl Anderson.

He worked for the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project in 1936.

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Facts & Trivia

Ad Ranked on the list of most popular Painter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Ad Reinhardt celebrates birthday on December 24 of every year.

Top Facts about Ad Reinhardt

1. Ad Reinhardt was an American abstract painter and printmaker.
2. He was born in 1913 and died in 1967.
3. Reinhardt is known for his black paintings, which he began in the early 1950s.
4. He was associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement.
5. Reinhardt taught at Brooklyn College from 1947 to 1951.
6. His work has been exhibited at major museums around the world.
7. In addition to painting, he also created cartoons and wrote essays on art.
8. Reinhardt’s work is characterized by its minimalism and focus on color and form.
9. He believed that art should be free of any social or political message.
10. Some critics have described his work as nihilistic or even anti-art.

What was Ad Reinhardt famous for?

Reinhardt is best known for his so-called “black” paintings of the 1960s , which appear at first glance to be simply canvases painted black but are actually composed of black and nearly black shades.

When was Ad Reinhardt born?

December 24, 1913

How do I find my Ad Reinhardt?

In February 1943, the progressive newspaper PM hired Ad Reinhardt as its staff artist and, in January 1946, Reinhardt embarked on his most ambitious illustration project—the notable “How to Look” series, in which his cartoons and collages transformed from small, supplemental illustrations, to complex, ironic, and pithy …

Which artist painted a black canvas?

At first glance this painting presents a flat black surface. But longer viewing reveals more than one shade of black and an underlying geometric structure. Reinhardt has divided the canvas into a three-by-three grid of squares.

What are the three major defining elements of cubism?

The Cubist style emphasized the flat, two-dimensional surface of the picture plane, rejecting the traditional techniques of perspective, foreshortening, modeling, and chiaroscuro and refuting time-honoured theories that art should imitate nature.