Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe is the presumably most signifying US-American painter of the 20-th century.

Georgia O'Keeffe was born in 1887 in Sun Prairie in the state Wisconsin.

At first O'Keeffe was a commercial advertising artist. From 1915 Georgia O'Keeffe turned completely to the painting.

Especially the young woman was influenced by Vassily Kandinski, the founder of the " blue rider " and forerunners in the matter of abstract painting. Georgia O'Keeffe developed very soon her quite own style. Often her works adorned flowers in extreme close view like around example with the " black irises " from the year 1927.

The paintings are from an almost meditative explanatory power and show in spite of her abstraction always realistic relations . Often Georgia O'Keeffe also put sexual subjects in the centre of her works which were often classified as revolutionary.

In the 1920s and 1930s Georgia O'Keefe also created several city scenes and industrial sceneries which fascinated by her exact execution and embodied with it the style of the precisionism.

Furthermore Georgia O'Keeffe also fascinated by her pictures of the wild scenery of New Mexico.

Georgia O'Keeffe died 1986 in Santa Fe in New Mexico.