The B'nai B'rith magazine · 1927-06-01 · 9 (6.1927) · p. Seite 378

Louis Lozowick An Artist Who Presents the Soul of America By Yossef Gaer HERE are very few artists, especially painters, whose critical interpretations of art, in general, and their own work, in particular, have crystallized into an intellectual residue of great instructive value. Louis Lozowick is one of them. Even a casual glance at Lozowick's drawings and paintings arrest one's attention to the intellectual clarity of the artist's conception. It is because of the clarity and depth of his intellect that Louis Lozowick has so definitely established himself among the most important creative minds of our country, even _ though he is still a young man. Louis Lozowick was born in Russia in 1892. He began his art studies at a very youthful age. He came to this Figure Three country while still a young boy, and here he continued his general and Figure Two artistic education. He attended the Ohio State University where he perfected the style of writing that distinguishes his numerous articles and his books. He studied drawing and painting at the National Academy of Design in New York City. At a very early period in his life, his work began to attract the attention of art critics. When his drawings and paintings were later exhibited in Europe, German critics proclaimed Lozowick the Whit- 378 Stt man of American painters. And the comparison was well chosen, for what Whitman is to American poetry, Lozowick is to American art. Emerging above both the academicians who still paint cows in the pasture and ladies in the nude, and the ultra-moderns who glorify the romantic chaos of the machine, Louis Lozowick set himself to interpret our civilization through the medium of what, to him, most clearly expresses our age—the mass structures of our cities. In his paintings of New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Seattle, and other cities, Lozowick made visible the essence of these places that constitutes the American civilization. He presented an intellectual portrayal of the Soul of America. The most obvious and striking feature of Lozowick's cities is the absence of people and of those familiar mani-