The private art foundation EL SOURDOG HEX e.V. will be presenting the works of American artist Lowell Nesbitt (b. 1933 in Baltimore; d. 1993 New York) from May 5th until June 28th, 2008. The grey paintings exhibition will feature landscapes and cityscapes by the artist completed between 1965 and 1971.

The American artist Lowell Nesbitt studied at the Tyler School of Fine Art in Philadelphia from 1950 to 1955 and subsequently for one more year at the Royal College of Art in London.

From 1956 to 1963 he lived in Washington where he taught at the Baltimore Museum of Art for some time.
In 1963 Nesbitt moved to New York. His artistic view of himself and his aesthetic concept were consolidated beginning with his stay in New York. Lowell Nesbitt's rapid artistic break-through could be seen in a number of annual individual exhibitions in the USA starting in 1963.
In 1969 his work was shown for the first time in Germany (Gallery Thelen, Jöllenbeck Essen) and in London in 1971. Further exhibitions have also followed in Europe since then.

Lowell Nesbitt's painting has its stylistic origins in the realistic American painting of 50's. The motives are first recorded with the help of photography, in close cooperation with photographers. The basic of his work is always the photograph, which he does not copy, but, often only after a long period of time, converts into a painting. Nesbitt grappled with various forms of realism. He can be called a forerunner of photorealism.

Certain themes and motives rarely occur individually or only once in his pictures and drawings, but usually over and over again and in series: flowers, animals, architecture, personal things such as clothes and shoes, landscapes, still lives. The strict structure of his pictures, and often an alienation tending toward the surrealistic, distinguishes Lowell Nesbitt's pictures, which are mostly painted in pale and cool colours.

The selection of pictures at the present exhibition was limited to Nesbitt's early work.

(source: Lowell Nesbitt, Rosewith Braig)

Exhibition:
May 5 – June 28, 2008
Tuesday to Saturday, 11am – 6pm
Admission is free