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Ida Rittenberg Kohlmeyer

Ida Rittenberg Kohlmeyer (1912 - 1997) was active/lived in Louisiana, Georgia.  Ida Kohlmeyer is known for Abstract painting and sculpture.

Ida Rittenberg Kohlmeyer became one of the most prominent abstract artists in the South and started her career late, turning to art in her late thirties in search of a deeper meaning and purpose in life. She moved from an early figurative style in paintings of children to Abstract-Expressionism, influenced by a summer's study in Provincetown, Massachusetts with Hans Hofmann.

Kohlmeyer's life before art was relatively conventional, though her native creative instincts are clear in her feeling for literature. She was born in 1911 in New Orleans, Louisiana, gaining her B.A. degree in English literature in 1933 from Newcomb College. She then married a businessman and had two children.

Her artistic evolution began when she took local art classes, accelerating with her study of art at Tulane University in New Orleans, where she eventually received an M.F.A. degree in 1956. She was forty-five years old. That summer the fateful encounter with Hofmann occurred when she took his c   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 14753 characters.]  Artist bio

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