Glarner, Fritz

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Glarner, Fritz (1899–1972). Swiss-born abstract painter who became an American citizen in 1944. He was born in Zurich and studied at the Academy in Naples, 1916–21. From 1923 to 1935 he lived in Paris, where his work developed from Impressionism to Constructivism; in 1933 he became a member of the Abstraction-Création association. After a year in Zurich, Glarner emigrated to the USA in 1936, settling in New York, where he was an early member of American Abstract Artists. He was a friend of Mondrian and painted in a style similar to his but less severe, with the forms often departing from strict horizontal and vertical alignment, creating a shifting, dynamic feeling (he gave the name ‘Relational Painting’ to this modification of Mondrian's Neo-Plasticism). Unlike Mondrian, Glarner often worked on a large scale, as with his murals for the lobby of the Time-Life Building, New York (1959–60).

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