Alfred L. Copley
Alfred Lewin Copley (1910 – 1992) was a German-American medical scientist and an artist at the New York School in the 1950s. He was married to the Icelandic artist Nína Tryggvadóttir.
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Alfred L. Copley
- Born
- 1910. · Dresden.
- Died
- 1992. · New York City.
- Nationality
- United States.
- Occupation
- painter, physician, artist, designer, pharmacologist and draftsperson.
- Movements
- abstract expressionism.
- Languages
- English.
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Alfred Lewin Copley (1910 – 1992) was a German-American medical scientist and an artist at the New York School in the 1950s. He was married to the Icelandic artist Nína Tryggvadóttir.
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Work as a medical scientist
Work as a medical scientist
The recorded working language is English. Places of work recorded in the authority are United States, New York City and Paris. Work by Alfred L. Copley is recorded in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum and Design Museum Gent.
Copley studied the rheology of blood. In 1948, he introduced the word biorheology to describe rheology in biological systems. In 1952, he introduced the word hemorheology, 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
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 composer Edgard Varèse. He participated in the Ninth Street Show in 1951 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.
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• Alfred L Copley; Alex Silberberg, One man--two visions: L. Alcopley--A.L. Copley, artist and scientist: a retrospective, on the occasion of an eightieth birthday, (Oxford; New York: Pergamon Press, 1993.) • Marika Herskovic, New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists, (New York School Press, 2000.). p. 12; p. 18; p. 36; pp. 54–57 • Müller-Yao, Marguerite Hui: Der Einfluß der Kunst der chinesischen Kalligraphie auf die westliche informelle Malerei, Diss. Bonn, Köln 1985. • Müller-Yao, Marguerite: Informelle Malerei und chinesische Kalligrafie, in: Informel, Begegnung und Wandel, (hrsg von Heinz Althöfer, Schriftenreihe des Museums am Ostwall; Bd. 2), Dortmund 2002, • Rolf Wedewer: Die Malerei des Informel. Weltverlust und Ich-Behauptung, Deutscher Kunstverlag, München, 2007.
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