Biografie von Sydney Jonas BUDNICK (1921-1994)

Birth place: NYC

Death place: NYC

Profession: Abstract painter, architect

Studied: With Hans Hoffman, 1940; Inst. Design, Chicago, 1946; archit. at Harvard with Walter Gropius

Exhibited: AIC, 1948 ("Am. Abstract and Surrealist Art")

Work: Guggenheim Mus.; MoMA

Comments: He was encouraged by Hilla Rebay who gave him a job as a night watchman at the Museum of Non-Objective Painting. In 1940 he met Mondrian and began painting in a similar style of geomteric abstractionism in three primary colors. After WWII, he became an architect but continued to paint.

Sources: American Abstract Art, 179

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