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Albert Berne studied piano in
Berlin with Arthur Rubinstein. Here he experienced the radical ferment in the
arts in Europe during the pre- WW1 years. He returned to Cincinnati and married
Lucile Kroger, the daughter of the grocery fortune. When she died, to ease the loneliness',
he began to paint. He was 56 years old. His earliest works were
representational, but as he grew older his paintings became more personal, more
intense, and more abstract. After a serious illness, at age 96, he begins a
sequence of paintings where he painted one picture a day, or 147 paintings in
162 days. Notice that the date on this painting is Aug, 5, 1973.He died in 1973.
This beautiful painting is a
record of an old man’s concluding dreams; the map of the unconscious
culmination of a beautiful life. He is the subject of a chapter in a book,
"Aging, Death, and the Completion of Being", by Francis O'Connor,
whose most recent book is a study of Jackson Pollock.
Studied: Cincinnati Art Academy
with Frank Myers and Carl Zimmerman.
References:
"Aging, Death, and the Completion of
Being", ed. David D. Van Tassel
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