Gerome Kamrowski - Surrealism
Gerome Kamrowski (January 29, 1914 – March 27, 2004) was an American artist and participant in the Surrealist Movement in the United States.
He was born in Warren, Minnesota and begun to study art in the early 1930s at the St. Paul School of Art (now Minnesota Museum of American Art — MMAA), and later to the New Bauhaus in Chicago (now Illinois Institute of Technology's Institute of Design). He then moved to New York to study with Hans Hofmann, where he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship.In the late 1930s and early 1940s he lived in New York and had been working with surrealist automatism for several years. Kamrowski became an integral part of the emerging surrealists and collaborated with William Baziotes, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock and Roberto Matta. This group was the kernel of the open-ended movement that was referred to as abstract surrealism and would over time prove to be the beginnings of abstract expressionism.
