Morton Livingston Schamberg (1881-1918)

Aliases: Morton L. Schamberg

Professions: Painter; Photographer; Sculptor

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  MORTON SCHAMBERG (1881-1918)

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  MORTON LIVINGSTON SCHAMBERG (1881-1918)

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  MORTON LIVINGSTON SCHAMBERG (American 1881 - 1918)

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  MORTON LIVINGSTON SCHAMBERG, (AMERICAN 1881-1918), UNTITLED - ON THE COAST

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Morton Livingston Schamberg Biography

(b Philadelphia, PA, 15 Oct 1881; d Philadelphia, 13 Oct 1918). American painter and photographer. After training as an architect at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (A.B., 1903), he studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, also in Philadelphia, from 1903 to 1906 under William Merritt Chase, with whom he travelled to Europe. From 1907 to 1909 he lived mostly in Paris, where he saw the work of major avant-garde artists, including Cézanne, Picasso and Matisse, and benefited from contact with Leo Stein, an important collector and writer. By 1909 Schamberg had responded to the example of Cézanne’s paintings, including simplified and more solid forms in his own work. Following his participation in the Armory Show in 1913, Cubism became the dominant element of his art, modified in such works as Figure B, Geometric Patterns (1913; Fort Worth, TX, Amon Carter Mus.) by his use of vibrant colour. About 1915 Schamberg met Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia in New York through Walter Arensberg and in works such as Mechanical Abstraction (1916; Philadelphia, PA, Mus. A.) achieved a synthesis of intense colour, Cubist form and mechanical subject-matter, which constituted the basis of his most original work.

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