Art No. 1178
Artist : Morris Katz
(1931-2010)
Morris Katz (born
Moshe Katz on March 5, 1932 in Galicia, Poland, died November 12, 2010 at age
78 in The Bronx, New York) was a Jewish-American painter. He holds two Guinness
World Records as the world's fastest painter and the world's most prolific artist.
He has also been called the "King of Schlock Art" and the "King
of Toilet Paper Art" because of a novel means of painting he developed
using a palette knife and toilet tissue instead of a paintbrush.
Katz was born in 1932
in Galicia, Poland. At age 13 he studied under Dr. Hans Fokler of the Munich
Academy.After World War II, he lived for a while in a displaced persons
camp, where he earned a diploma in carpentry, and he has since said that toilet
paper is his "diploma in art."
He moved to the
United States in 1949, when he took a job in carpentry while maintaining a
sideline with his art. While working on his unpublished Dictionary of Color
in 1956, he decided to try painting with his palette knife instead of his
brushes. After some time he also began experimenting with the use of rags;
when he ran out of rags he turned to toilet tissue. As of February 2007,
over his career he had painted more than 280,000 paintings.
Over his long career,
he established himself as a painter, comedian, and television
personality.
An obituary described him as "creating 'instant art' and entertaining generations of
guests in the old Borscht Belt hotels.
wikipedia
Lived/Active:
New-York, USA
Known for: instant
art-mod figurative, portrait-palette knife and toilet paper
Oil Painting on Board
Title : Coast
46-1/2" x
23-1/2"
Signed
Original Frame
$6,000
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