Louis Lozowick

A native of Kiev, Russia, and born on December 10, 1892, Louis Lozowick came to this country at age fourteen and studied at the National Academy of Design and Ohio State University and later in France and Germany from 1919 to 1924. Lozowick specialized in painting and litograph works. His first one-man show was held in Berlin, 1923. He became a US citizen in 1919. He worked briefly with the Public Works of Art Project in New York City in 1934. During his life time he traveled extensivley through out the world. In 1972 he was elected to membership in the National Academy of Design. He died on Sept. 9, 1973, in South Orange, New Jersey.

Louis Lozowick, born in 1892 in the village of Ludvinovka near Kiev in the Ukraine, emigrated to the United States in 1906. The abrupt entrance to urban America from village life forever and profoundly affected his aesthetic interpretation of modern life. Although academically trained in the graphic arts, he was self-taught in lithography, the medium which he truly made his own. Characterized by creative vitality and superb technical mastery, Lozowick’s lithographs are among the finest created in twentieth-century America. Lozowick is particularly noted for his lithographic prints that portray the industrial city environment and architectural forms. In addition to his interpretations of industrial America, Lozowick’s oeuvre includes a number of works that reflect the artist’s enjoyment of the beauty of the natural world, his love of travel, and an almost romantic attraction to ancient architecture. This gentle realism of Lois Lozowick is represented in this exhibition by 22 lithographs, acquired by the Museum in 1996 through donation form his son, Lee Lozowick, and which in date of production (1929-1973) collectively span almost the whole of his career before his death in 1973.