L. Alcopley
1910, Dresden, Germany - 1992, New York, USA
View of Mount Zion in Jerusalem, 1975
Original Hand-Signed Lithograph -
Dated 1975
Artist Name:
L. Alcopley (Alfred Lewin
Copley)
Title: View of Mount Zion in Jerusalem, 1975
Signature Description:
Hand-signed and dated "1975" lower
right,
Numbered "20/60" lower left
Technique: Lithograph (Printed at the Burston Graphic Center, Jerusalem)
Image Size: 9 x 13 cm / 3.54" x 5.12" inch
Frame: Unframed
Condition: Very good condition
Artist's Biography:
As a
scientist, Copley studied the rheology of blood. In 1948 he
introduced the word biorheology to describe rheology in biological
systems.
In 1952 he introduced the wordhemorheology, to describe the study of the way
blood and blood vessels function as part of the living organism.
In 1966 he established the International Society of Hemorheology, which changed
its name and scope in 1969 to the International Society of Biorheology
(ISB).
In 1972 the ISB awarded him its Poiseuille gold medal.
Work as an artist
In 1949 he
was one of twenty artists who founded the Eighth Street Club. The group
also included Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning and Alcopley's
close friend, the composerEdgard Varèse.
He participated in the Ninth Street Show in 1952 and had a solo
exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam in 1962.
His work is held in the collection of the National Museum of Modern Art,
Tokyo.
Alfred Lewin Copley (L. Alcopley) was a medical
scientist and an artist at the New York School. He is best known for his Abstract
Expressionist paintings, having been greatly influenced by the Blaue Reiter and
Die Brucke period, a hallmark of the Dresden culture in which he was raised.
Born in Dresden in 1910, Copley pursued biology in Weimar, and studied painting
on the side. As Nazi oppression began to stymie the modern arts in Germany,
Copley earned his first doctorate at the Dresden Academy and moved to
Switzerland, in 1935. It was at Basel that he split his time between
the scientific and artistic disciplines, which he would continue to pursue for
the rest of his life.
In 1937 he sailed for New York. Here he would meet
some of the foremost students of Abstract Expressionism and the arts in
general. Before long, Copley and his contemporaries formed “The Club”, a
central hub of American artistic innovation that would become the New York
School. Meanwhile, Copley fervently studied biology and eventually founded two
new forms of biological study, biorheology and hemorheology. His pursuits far
from complete, he would also publish three scientific periodicals, and was
involved in research for several others.
Copley would exhibit throughout the United States and Europe, often with his wife, the Icelandic painter Nina Tryggvadottir. His travels as a speker for scientific forums also took him on international travels, and he was twice nominated for the Nobel prize by his colleagues. As both an artist and scientist, Copley would receive many awards and honors. He would work until the week of his death in 1992.
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