Lorser Feitelson

About

Lorser Feitelson (1898–1978) was an American artist recognized as a founding figure of Southern California modernism, hard-edge painting, and Abstract Classicism. Born in Savannah, Georgia, his family soon moved to New York, where he was influenced by modernist works of Matisse, Duchamp, and Italian Futurists. He studied in Paris at the Académie Colarossi in 1919, exhibited at the Salon d'Automne, and settled in Los Angeles in 1927, teaching at institutions like Chouinard Art Institute and Stickney Memorial Art School. There, in 1930, he met Helen Lundeberg, his future wife and collaborator, with whom he founded Post-Surrealism, also called Subjective Classicism, in 1934 as a rational alternative to European Surrealism, emphasizing conscious use of subjective elements in classical figural structures.

Post-Surrealism (Subjective Classicism), Hard-Edge Abstraction, Abstract Classicism