Pinchas Maryan Biography

An artist of international fame, Pinchas Maryan worked in an abstract style. Although he was connected to various movements such as CoBrA and Nouvelle Figuration, the incredibly personal nature of his paintings makes it impossible to classify his work as a part of any specific movement.

The difficult conditions under which he lived—at 18 he lost the rest of his family in a concentration camp—are at the heart of his work. His “reality paintings”, as he liked to call them, are in large part autobiographical. “It is myself, in whatever color, that I put on the canvas”, he said.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2006
- PicassoMio.com 2002
- Holzdrucke . Galerie Marie-José van de Loo, Munich, Germany.

2001
- Entre noir et blanc . Galerie Idées d´artistes, Paris, France.
- Druckgraphik aus Frankreich nach 45 . Museum Moderner Kunst - Stiftung Wörlen, Passau.

1972
- Ten Independents . Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA.

1969
- Human Condition / Personal Torment . Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA.

SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS:

- Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark.
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA.
- Musee National d'Art Moderne Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, USA.
- The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA.
- Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA.