Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
EXHIBITION Apr 25 — Jul 4, 2019
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SAUL STEINBERG (1914–1999)
Swiss Still Life, 1988
watercolor, crayon, colored pencil and pencil on paper
58,4 x 69,5 cm
© The Saul Steinberg Foundation / Courtesy Kicken Berlin & Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese
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SAUL STEINBERG (1914–1999)
Untitled, 1946
ink on paper
36,8 x 57,8 cm
© The Saul Steinberg Foundation / Courtesy Kicken Berlin & Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese
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SAUL STEINBERG (1914–1999)
Untitled, 1949–54
ink on paper
36,5 x 58,4 cm
© The Saul Steinberg Foundation / Courtesy Kicken Berlin & Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese
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SAUL STEINBERG (1914–1999)
Untitled, 1952
ink, watercolor, crayon, stamp, and pencil on paper
36,8 x 58,4 cm
© The Saul Steinberg Foundation / Courtesy Kicken Berlin & Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese
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SAUL STEINBERG (1914–1999)
Four Figures, 1970
pencil, conté crayon, and stamp on paper
45,7 x 55,9 cm
© The Saul Steinberg Foundation / Courtesy Kicken Berlin & Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese
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SAUL STEINBERG (1914–1999)
Modena 1939, 1970
in, pencil, colored pencil, watercolor and charcoal on paper
66 x 50,8 cm
© Saul Leiter Foundation / Courtesy Kicken Berlin & Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
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SAUL STEINBERG (1914–1999)
Milano via Pascoli in 1936, From Memory, 1970
pencil and colored pencil on paper
46,7 x 62 cm
© The Saul Steinberg Foundation / Courtesy Kicken Berlin & Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese
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SAUL STEINBERG (1914–1999)
Cairo, 1974
ink, crayon, colored pencil, pencil, and watercolor on paper
48,9 x 63,2 cm
© The Saul Steinberg Foundation / Courtesy Kicken Berlin & Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese
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SAUL LEITER (1923–2013)
Untitled (Barbara, nude), n.d.
gelatin silver print, printed 1970s
13,8 x 9 cm
© Saul Leiter Foundation / Courtesy Kicken Berlin & Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
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SAUL LEITER (1923–2013)
Untitled (Barbara, nude), n.d.
gelatin silver print, printed 1970s
23,9 x 15,6 cm
© Saul Leiter Foundation / Courtesy Kicken Berlin & Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
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SAUL LEITER (1923–2013)
Untitled (Barbara and Jay), n.d.
gelatin silver print, printed 1970s
9,6 x 14,7 cm
© Saul Leiter Foundation / Courtesy Kicken Berlin & Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
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WILLIAM N. COPLEY (1919–1996)
Untitled (Ship of Fools), 1989
acrylic on canvas
152,5 x 193,5 cm
© William N. Copley Estate / Copley LLC / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin & Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese
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WILLIAM N. COPLEY (1919–1996)
T-Shirt Shop, 1995
acrylic on canvas
76,5 x 132 cm
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SAUL LEITER (1923–2013)
Barbara and Bettina, ca. 1950
gelatin silver print, printed 1970s
22,2 x 32,6 cm
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WILLIAM N. COPLEY (1919–1996)
Chien Bien Fou, 1959
oil on canvas
81 x 65 cm
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WILLIAM N. COPLEY (1919–1996)
Untitled, 1961
graphite and oil on canvas
80 x 64 cm
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SAUL STEINBERG (1914–1999)
Street War (Cadavre Exquis), 1972-74
pencil, crayon, colored pencil, and ballpen on paper
53,4 x 34,3 cm
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SAUL STEINBERG (1914–1999)
Four Cardinal Virtues, 1969
colored pencil and pencil on paper
50,2 x 37,8 cm
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SAUL STEINBERG (1914–1999)
Untitled, 1960–1970
ink and watercolor on paper
34,6 x 53 cm
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SAUL STEINBERG (1914–1999)
Two Notebooks, 1990
carved wood with gouache, pencil, crayon, copper, and ink on paper collage, on wooden plate
61 x 45,7 x 5 cm
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SAUL STEINBERG (1914–1999)
Don Fabrizio, 1984
carved wood with gouache, colored pencil, pencil, stamp, gold foil, and metal on wooden plate
61 x 45,7 x 5 cm
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SAUL STEINBERG (1914–1999)
Untitled (homeless person), 1950
ink on gelatin silver print, photograph by Karl Bissinger
35,6 x 27,9 cm
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SAUL STEINBERG (1914–1999)
Untitled, ca. 1950
gelatin silver print
35,5 x 28 cm
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SAUL STEINBERG (1914–1999)
Untitled, 1982
pencil and colored pencil on paper
47,6 x 43,2 cm
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WILLIAM N. COPLEY (1919–1996)
Untitled, 1956
graphite and crayon on cardboard
37 x 41,5 cm
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WILLIAM N. COPLEY (1919–1996)
Untitled, 1985
ink and crayon on paper
28 x 21 cm
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WILLIAM N. COPLEY (1919–1996)
The Billard Lesson, 1991
felt pen and crayon on paper
76,2 x 101,6 cm
© William N. Copley Estate / Copley LLC / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin & Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese
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WILLIAM N. COPLEY (1919–1996)
Towering Inferno, 1975
oil on canvas
90 x 116 cm
© William N. Copley Estate / Copley LLC / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin & Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese
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WILLIAM N. COPLEY (1919–1996)
Untitled, 1964
ink on paper
61 x 45,7 cm
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WILLIAM N. COPLEY (1919–1996)
Untitled, 1964
ink on paper
61 x 48,3 cm
© William N. Copley Estate / Copley LLC / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin & Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese
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SAUL STEINBERG (1914–1999)
Three Notebooks, 1989
carved wood with gouache, pencil, colored pencil, photograph, three polaroids on wooden plate
53,4 x 40,6 x 3,2 cm
© The Saul Steinberg Foundation / Courtesy Kicken Berlin & Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese
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WILLIAM N. COPLEY (1919–1996)
Untitled, 1959
oil on canvas
24 x 19 cm
© William N. Copley Estate / Copley LLC / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin & Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese
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WILLIAM N. COPLEY (1919–1996)
Untitled, 1951
oil on canvas
65 x 81 cm
© William N. Copley Estate / Copley LLC / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin & Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese
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WILLIAM N. COPLEY (1919–1996)
Jardinage, 1968
oil on canvas
55 x 33 cm
© William N. Copley Estate / Copley LLC / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin & Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese
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WILLIAM N. COPLEY (1919–1996)
Untitled, 1962
watercolor, ink, and lace fabric on paper
12 x 22 cm
© William N. Copley Estate / Copley LLC / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin & Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese
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WILLIAM N. COPLEY (1919–1996)
SADE, 1959
oil on canvas
27 x 22 cm
© William N. Copley Estate / Copley LLC / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin & Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese
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WILLIAM N. COPLEY (1919–1996)
Untitled, 1960
oil on canvas
35 x 24 cm
© William N. Copley Estate / Copley LLC / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin & Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese
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SAUL LEITER (1923–2013)
Untitled (Barbara, nude), n.d.
gelatin silver print, printed 1970s
15,9 x 24,6 cm
© Saul Leiter Foundation / Courtesy Kicken Berlin & Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
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SAUL LEITER (1923–2013)
Untitled (Nude), n.d.
gelatin silver print, printed 1970s
24,8 x 19,7 cm
© Saul Leiter Foundation / Courtesy Kicken Berlin & Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
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SAUL LEITER (1923–2013)
Untitled (Nude), n.d.
gelatin silver print, printed 1970s
21 x 18,7 cm
© Saul Leiter Foundation / Courtesy Kicken Berlin & Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
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SAUL LEITER (1923–2013)
Untitled (Barbara, nude), n.d.
gelatin silver print, printed 1970s
17,9 x 17,9 cm
© Saul Leiter Foundation / Courtesy Kicken Berlin & Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
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SAUL LEITER (1923–2013)
Untitled (Soames, nude), n.d.
gelatin silver print, printed 1970s
18,4 x 18,7 cm
© Saul Leiter Foundation / Courtesy Kicken Berlin & Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
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SAUL LEITER (1923–2013)
Untitled (Jay, nude), n.d.
gelatin silver print, printed 1970s
14,9 x 22,6 cm
© Saul Leiter Foundation / Courtesy Kicken Berlin & Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
Exhibition Text
For Gallery Weekend 2019, Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese and Kicken Berlin co-curate the exhibition LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS with works by William N. Copley, Robert Frank, Saul Leiter and Saul Steinberg (on view at Galerie Friese on Fasanenplatz). With a common interest in everyday culture in America, the four artists each use different media—photography, painting, and drawing—to create a poignant portrait of a post-war society. The paintings of William N. Copley (1919–1996) revolve around sexual desire and depict a world of lust, intoxication, and the moral implications thereof in the ’50s and ’60s. Bridging European Surrealism and Pop Art, Copley’s work holds a truly unique position. Pieces from different complexes of work by Copley ranging from the 1950s to the 1990s are on view, which bear witness to the continuity and stylistic diversity of Copley’s cosmos. This includes his magazine S. M. S.—Shit Must Stop, in which Copley presented his contemporaries from Christo to La Monte Young. Robert Frank (born 1924) is one of the great innovators of documentary photography in the 20th century. He wrote photographic history with his radically subjective contemplation of The Americans in unadorned, rough and poetic images. With the eponymous publication in 1958, he revolutionized the aesthetics of the photo book. Frank was discovered by Alexey Brodovitch, the legendary art director, and photographed for magazines like Life, Fortune or Vogue until 1953. He travelled across the United States with a Guggenheim grant from 1955 to 1957 pursuing his project of a comprehensive picture series—what would later become The Americans. The Swiss-born artist explored the country by car with a fresh eye and a precise sensibility for the overlooked and unexpected—things that had never been seen and shown like this before. “(T)hat crazy feeling,” as the poet of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac wrote in his preface about the mysteriousness of daily life beneath the omnipresent American flag. Frank’s series was a statement on the American way of life—the street, the car, consumer culture, media and not least the people—from the wide-eyed perspective of a flexible “perception following chance” (Ute Eskildsen). And yet few, often dynamic shots, which were beyond all convention, sufficed for him to capture the very essence: “The photograph must be […] a confrontation with a power,” as Frank said in retrospect. Saul Steinberg (1914–1999), who became famous especially as an illustrator for the magazine The New Yorker and designed the cover of Frank’s The Americans, et al., narrated the dreams and nightmares of an entire generation of Americans in his virtuoso works. His unique style was influential and groundbreaking within the genre of drawing, breaking down the boundaries between illustration, cartoon and drawing; between high and low art. Along with drawings, the exhibition also includes collages by Steinberg. The painter and photographer Saul Leiter (1923–2013) is considered a pioneer of abstract, painterly, genre-busting photography. He captured impressions of vibrant street life in New York as well as shooting intimate studio portraits, including nudes that have only become public recently. Since the late 1940s, beside his commercial commissions as a fashion photographer, he created these tranquil pictures. Snapshots alternate with carefully composed images, resonating with the intimate mood of a personal connection. A silhouette, a gaze, a knee, an apparently carelessly opened blouse—Leiter looks at the young women with sympathy and empathy: there is no glamour or posing here, nothing bold. In contrast to Leiter’s abstractions of New York city life in color, the nudes decidedly foreground individuality, without the use of overly free formal composition. Beyond the categories of portrait and nude, these are studies of dense shapes, prototypical postures and gestures. Although these artworks have a quiet note, they mirror the freedom of art: the spontaneity of expression, the diversity of shapes, the transformation of reality into images—and not least the experience of realizing one’s own dream in the “land of opportunity.” Saul Leiter, who had traded the strict rules of his orthodox Jewish upbringing for this liberty, was true to it his whole lifetime as an artist. The exhibition is on view at Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Meierottostr. 1, near Fasanenplatz. (Carolin Förster)
Artists
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Saul Leiter
1923–2013
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Saul Steinberg
1914–1999
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William N. Copley
1919–1996
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Robert Frank
1924–2019