Louis Lozowick

1892 - 1974

Louis Lozowick was born in Russia and studied at the Kiev Art School. He came to New York in 1906 and studied at the National Academy of Design with Leon Kroll and Emil Carlsen. He graduated from Ohio State University in 1918 and then went to Europe. While there he studied in Paris and Berlin and was influenced by the Constructivists, De Stijl and Bauhaus philosophies. He served on the editorial board of the New Masses and was active as a lecturer and writer. He was in the graphics division of the New York City WPA from 1934 to 1940 and was a member of the American Printmakers as well as the American Society of Printers, Sculptors and Gravers. His work was included in the AIGA 50 Prints of the Years in 1932, 33 and 34. Lozowick's lithographic work featured his interest in the repetitious form of windows, pipes, towers, tanks and smokestacks of the factories, skyscrapers and bridges of New Jersey and New York.