{"data":{"id":"802","type":"artist","attributes":{"id":802,"topgoose_id":1708,"tms_id":802,"display_name":"Louis Lozowick","sort_name":"Lozowick Louis","display_date":"1892–1973","begin_date":"1892","end_date":"1973","biography":"\u003cp\u003eLouis Lozowick worked predominantly\nin the print medium and was most prolific\nduring the 1920s and 1930s, when he\nrecorded the social reform and industrial\ngrowth that took place in America between\nthe world wars. Born in the former Russian\nEmpire (now Ukraine), Lozowick immigrated\nto the United States in 1906, where he\nstudied drawing and pursued a liberal arts\neducation. During a year spent in the\nArmy Medical Corps, in 1918, he was able\nto travel cross-country, sketching the\nindustrial structures that would later\nbecome the central subject of the prints\nand paintings of his mature style. Lozowick\nmoved to Europe the following year and,\nduring time spent in Paris, Moscow, and\nBerlin, absorbed the ideas and techniques\nof artists of the European avant-garde,\nespecially the Constructivists. “Almost\neveryone evinced an immediate interest in\nAmerica,” he later recalled, “not, however,\nits art but its machines.” Upon his return to\nthe United States in 1924, he would\nincorporate their views into his vision of\nindustrial America.\n\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLozowick’s attraction to the geometry\nof the American industrial landscape is\nevident in \u003ca href=\"/collection/works/10676\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eCorner of Steel Plant\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e. The angle\nof the image, looking up at the steel mill,\nhighlights the power of its presence and the\nrational order of its structure—the parallel\nlines of the scaffolding, the grid of the vent,\nthe curves of the pipes. While Lozowick’s\nlithographs from the 1910s and 1920s\ndepict industrial structures and machine\nparts, during the Depression his prints\nbecame more overtly political and explored\nthemes of labor, strikes, homelessness,\nand racial inequality.\u003c/p\u003e","on_view":false,"artport":false,"biennial":true,"collection":true,"ulan_id":"500028616","wikidata_id":"Q6687709","created_at":"2017-08-30T16:35:55.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-03-29T07:00:46.167-04:00","links":{"artworks":"/api/artists/802/artworks","exhibitions":"/api/artists/802/exhibitions"}}}}