FROST FINE ART

LUDWIG SANDER

Ludwig Sander was born in Staten Island, NY in 1906. He studied in New York with George Elmer Brown and Alexander Archipenko in the mid-1920s, in Paris in the late-1920s, and afterwards again in New York, at the Art Students League. In the early-1930s he studied in Munich with Hans Hoffman and returned to New York finally a few years later.

He exhibited regularly in the 1930s and his works at the time, although abstract, had not settled into the look of his later, more widely-known works. By the late-1950s though, Sander had refined his style and his paintings, drawings and prints are made up of flat, complementary areas of color bisected by almost-right-angled horizontal and vertical lines.

In 1949 he co-founded "The Club", an association and discussion group for artists in New York, whose sixteen members included Willem De Kooning, Franz Kline, Ad Reinhardt and Conrad Marca-Relli. Two years later Sander was one of the artists included in the famous 'Ninth Street Show', organized by the participating artists but hung by Leo Castelli, which first presented this group of abstract artists, the 'New York School', to the public.

Sander exhibited at Leo Castelli Gallery in 1959 and 1961, at Kootz Gallery in the later 1960s, and then at Lawrence Rubin Gallery and Knoedler &Co. His work is in the collection of the Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY (and was included in their important 1989 exhibiton "Abstraction. Geometry. Painting; Selected Geometric Abstract Painting in America Since 1945" Harry Abrams, NY, 1989); The Art Institute of Chicago; Corcoran Gallery of Art; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Whitney Museum of American Art, and many others.