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Abraham Rattner
American, 1893–1978
Rattner was born in Poughkeepsie, NY and studied at the Corcoran School of Art and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He served as a camouflage expert in World War 1 and that experience may have influenced his subsequent painting style with its faces and figures that seem to dissolve and reappear amidst fractured painting surfaces. An Expressionist, he absorbed Cubist and Futurist influences, rendering his commentary on the human condition in high-keyed color on countless canvasses. His themes range from crucifixions to landscapes. His abstracted figurative forms with their roughly encrusted surfaces evoke a vulnerability wholly understandable to his contemporaries who had seen the horrors of The Great War, the rise of Nazi Germany, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki.
American, 1893–1978
Composition with Three Figures
1952
Object Type:
Painting
Dimensions:
35 1/4 in. x 45 3/4 in. (89.54 cm x 116.21 cm)
Medium and Support:
Oil on canvas
Accession Number:
2006.0010
Credit Line:
Gift of Babette L. and Charles H. Wampold
Currently On View
Copyright:
Copyright held by Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art, St. Petersburg College, Tarpon Springs, FL
Rattner was born in Poughkeepsie, NY and studied at the Corcoran School of Art and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He served as a camouflage expert in World War 1 and that experience may have influenced his subsequent painting style with its faces and figures that seem to dissolve and reappear amidst fractured painting surfaces. An Expressionist, he absorbed Cubist and Futurist influences, rendering his commentary on the human condition in high-keyed color on countless canvasses. His themes range from crucifixions to landscapes. His abstracted figurative forms with their roughly encrusted surfaces evoke a vulnerability wholly understandable to his contemporaries who had seen the horrors of The Great War, the rise of Nazi Germany, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki.
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