GEORGE KRAUSE
b. 1937, Philadelphia
George Krause, Swish, 1970
George Krause is an American photographer, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1937. Krause studied at the Philadelphia College of Art where he explored painting, sculpture and photography. It wasn't until his career in the US Army in the late 50's that he began his full-time venture in documentary
photography. Segregated neighborhoods in South Carolina were his main subjects, documenting the racial limitations of a community. After his military service, Krause became the first photographer recipient of the Prix de Rome and Fulbright/Hays grant. He went on to be awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships and three separate grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The photographers before him that have influenced Krause in his artistic endeavors are the classic philosophers of photography as Cartier-Bresson and Strand. The work he was producing began to shift from documentary to a more dream like view that let the audience interpret. His work seeks to observe and question the human condition. Though his work is formally classic, his subject matter stretches to fantasy and emerges within the realm of surrealism. With traditional photography medium he has harnessed contemporary ideals.
The artwork of Krause has been extensively published, exhibited and, collected. His photography can be seen internationally in gallery collections as the Art Institute of Chicago, Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, Museum of Modern Art in New York and, the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. Texas is now his home where Krause continues to make new and impactful photographic work.
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EDUCATIONS
Philadelphia College of Art 1954-57, 1959-60
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2007 Visiting Artist at Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design
2006 Visiting Artist for the spring semester at Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas
2005 Visiting Artist at the University of Texas at San Antonio for the spring semester
1975-1998 Professor of Art, University of Houston. Retired 1999
Summer 1979 Director, “Venezia’ 79-La fotografia” (Venice Photographic Biennial)
Summer 1978 Associate Professor, Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
1973-75 Associate Professor, Head of Photography Department, Bucks County Community College, Newton, Pa.
1972-73 Instructor of Photography, Brooklyn College, N.Y.
1970-72 Instructor of Photography, Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia
1957-59 U.S. Military service
1956-57 Instructor (part-time), Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia Instructor (part-time), painting and drawing, Swarthmore College, Pa.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
1999 Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1990 Art Gallery, Bakersfield College, Calif.
Galería Spectrum, Zaragza, Spain New England Photographic Workshops, New Milford, Conn.
1988 Maine Photographic Workshops, Rockport, Maine
1987 Allen Street Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Film in the Cities, Minneapolis/ St. Paul
Photographers Gallery, London, England
Torino Fotographia, Turin, Italy
1985 f. 32 Foto Galerie, Amsterdam
Torino Fotographia, Torin, Italy
1984 McKillop Gallery, Salve Regina College, Newport, R.I.
1983 Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia.
1982 Amarillo Art Museum, Texas. Milwaukee Center for Photography Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
1980 American Academy in Rome
1979 Milwaukee Center for Photography Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia Rochester Institute of Technology, N.Y.
1978 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1977 American Academy in Rome
1976 Museo de Bellas Artes, Bogotá
1975 Milwaukee Center for Photography Philadelphia Print Club (with Norman Ackroyd, printmaker)
1974 Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas
1973 Briarcliff College, Briarcliff Manor. N.Y.
Fotographia Gallery, Los Angeles (retrospective 1958- 65)
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
1972 International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Pennsylvania State University, University Park 1971 Photographer’s Place, Berwyn, Pa.
1969 Museo de bellas Artes, Caracas
1966 Citizens’ Council on City Planning, Philadelphia Kenmore Galleries, Philadelphia
1964 Philadelphia Art Alliance
1963 Pennsylvania State University, University Park
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1990 “Me, Myself and I: A Photographic Self Portrait Exhibition”, Allen Street Gallery. Dallas, Texas
“Re: memory: Four Photographers Explore Images of the Private Past”, Birmingham Museum of Art, Ala. (Lorie Novak, Larry Sultan, and Ann Turyn)
1989 “Light Years”, Kuhn Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore “Photographers: Their Own Image”, Texas Photographic Society, Austin, Tex. “Sections”, International Center for Photography, (touring exhibition)
1988 “Evocative Presence”, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston “Nine Contemporary Photographers; The Presence of the Sublime”, San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas “One + One”, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1987 “Ten Texas Photographers”, Abilene Fine Arts Museum, Tex. “Thirty Works By Thirty Artists”, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts. Houston, Texas
1986 “Swimming Pools”, St. Canon Gallery, Amsterdam “Ten Texas Photographers”, Abilene Fine Arts Museum, Tex.
1985 “Posteriors”, Benteler Gallery, Houston, Texas “Suspendid Animation”, 1600 Cullen Center, Houston, Texas
1984 “George Krause and John Gossage Photographs”, University of Maryland, Baltimore
1982 “Art from Houston in Norway”, Stavenger, Norway
1981 “American Children”, Museum of Modern Art, New York “New American Nudes: Recent Trends and Attitudes”, Creative Photography Gallery, MIT, Cambridge “New Directions-The Nude”, MIT, Cambridge “Permanent Photography Collection”, San Antonio Museum of Art “Salute! Five Houston Artists”, Houston Festival ‘81, Alley Theater, Houston “Texas Photo Sampler”, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
1980 “Annual Fellows Exhibition”, American Academy in Rome
1979 “The Anthony G. Cronin Memorial Collection”, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1978 “Mirrors and Windows: Photography Since 1960”, Museum of Modern Art, New York (toured U.S. 1978-80)
1977 “Annual Fellows Exhibition”, American Academy in Rome “Target Collection of American Photography”, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1976 “New Portfolios”, Montgomery Art Gallery, Ponoma College, Calif. (toured to Friends of Photography 1977) “Philadelphia: Three Centuries of Art”, Philadelphia Museum of Art
1974 “Photography in America”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1971 “Contemporary Photographs 1”, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Mass “New Acquisitions”, Philadelphia Museum of Art
1970 “Contemporary Photography”, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia “The Photography Collection Grows, Gifts and Purchases
1968-69”, Worcester Art Museum, Mass.
1969 “Award Winning Alumni”, Philadelphia College of Art “New Photography U.S.A.”, Museum of Modern Art, New York (traveled to Europe and Latin America)
1967 “Photography in the Twentieth Century”, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (Toured U.S. and Canada 1967-73) “Steichen Photo Center Installation”, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1966 “Art in Embassies”, Bucharest, Romania, organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York “Photography A Current Report”, organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York (traveling Exhibition)
1965 “Recent Acquisitions”, Museum of Modern Art, New York “Photography in America” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1964 “The Photographer’s Eye”, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1963 “Five Unrelated Photographers” Museum of Modern Art, New York (with Ken Heyman, Herome Liebling, Minor White, and Garry Winogrand)
1960 “Recent Acquisitions”, Museum of Modern Art, New York
MONOGRAPHS
1991 George Krause/by Anne W. Tucker & George Krause. Rice University Press, Houston, Texas.
1987 Brown, Rosellen, and George Krause. Qui Riposa: Alternative Lives. New Haven, Conn.
1980 I Nudi. Philadelphia: Mancini Gallery 1972 Krause, George. George Krause1. Introduction by Mark Power. Haverford, Pa.: Toll & Armstrong
SELECTED PORTFOLIOS
1980 Krause, George. George Krause 1960-1970. Introduction by Mark Power. New York: Mancini Gallery
1975 Saints and Martyrs. Introduction by Carole Kismaric. Philadelphia: Photopia Gallery
COLLECTIONS
Addison Gallery of American Art. Andover, Mass.
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Anthony G. Cronin Memorial Collection. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Art Institute of Chicago
Bibliothéqoe Nationale, Pairs
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Va.
Fotofest 90 International Laser Videodisc Library, Houston
George Eastman House, Rochester, N.Y.
Gernsheim Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas Museum of Fine Arts, American Academy in Rome
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of Fine Arts, New Orleans
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Worcester Art Museum, Mass
