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George Earl Ortman was born on 17 October, 1926 in U.S., is an American painter, printmaker, constructionist and sculptor (1926-2015). Discover George Earl Ortman's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 89 years old?

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Age 89 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 17 October, 1926
Birthday 17 October
Birthplace U.S.
Date of death 16 December, 2015
Died Place U.S.
Nationality Mali

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His wife is Julie Bovasso, Constance Whidden, Lynn Braswell

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1914

She came to the United States in 1914 to work as governess for the mayor of San Rafael, California.

After completing high school, Ortman enlisted in the United States Naval Air Corps V-5 program.

1926

George Earl Ortman (October 17, 1926 – December 16, 2015) was an American painter, printmaker, constructionist and sculptor.

His work has been referred to as Neo-Dada, pop art,

minimalism and hard-edge painting.

His constructions, built with a variety of materials and objects, deal with the exploration off visual language derived from geometry—geometry as symbol and sign.

Ortman was represented by Greenspon in New York.

Ortman was born in Oakland, California.

His father was an electrician who learned his trade from his father, George Earl Ortman, who worked with Thomas Edison in Chicago in the late nineteenth century.

His mother, born Anna Katherine Noll, was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

1946

Upon his discharge in 1946, he studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts (now the California College of the Arts) (1947–1948).

1949

After several years, he moved to New York City, where he studied at the Atelier 17, a printmaking school founded by the English painter and printmaker Stanley William Hayter (1949).

Later that year, he left for Paris where he studied at the Atelier André Lhote (1949–50).

1950

Upon his return to New York City he studied at the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts (1950–51).

Ortman first exhibited in the Salon de Mai in Paris in 1950.

Upon his return to New York City he was invited to join the Artist' Club, a meeting place for artists whose members included early proponents of Action painting and Color Field painting.

1953

In 1953 he had his first solo exhibition at the Tanager Gallery, one of the Tenth Street a co-operative galleries that together formed an avant-garde alternative to the more conservative 57th Street and Madison Avenue galleries.

1954

In 1954, he and actress Julie Bovasso founded the Tempo Playhouse to perform contemporary European playwrights, including the first American showings of Jean Genet, Eugène Ionesco, and Michel de Ghelderode.

In 1954 and 1960, he showed simplified geometric constructions at the Stable Gallery.

This work was viewed by Donald Judd as a precursor to Minimalism.

1960

In July 1960 he married the artist, Conni Whidden.

1964

In Arts Yearbook 7 (1964), Donald Judd wrote: "Some of George Ortman's reliefs are three-dimensional enough to be objects. They seem to be games or models for some activity and suggest chance … They suggest probability theory. They are one of the few instances of completely unnaturalist art. They are concerned with a new area of experience, one which is relevant philosophically as well as emotionally."

1965

In 1965 Ortman was appointed artist in residence at Princeton University, and was honored with a retrospective at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

1967

In a catalogue essay for an exhibition of Ortman's work at Princeton University in 1967, American poet, Stanley Kunitz, wrote: "Ortman's work could not have been produced except for an artist of bold analytical intelligence, with a sense of the usable past and an inexhaustible curiosity about the way the thing is made, the "sacred mystery."

1970

In 1970 Ortman assumed the position of Head of the Painting Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills.

1991

His wife of 30 years died in 1991.

The following year Ortman left Cranbrook.

Returning to the East Coast, he moved to Castine, Maine, where he lives and works.

2015

Ortman died on December 16, 2015, at the age of 89.