b. Offenbach, Germany, 1919; d. 2011
Edith Schloss was a German-born American artist, art critic and writer who was integral within New York's postwar art scene and immersed in the interchange between poets and painters in the 1940s and 50s. Her work comprises bright, intimate abstractions based on landscapes and still lifes, as well as assemblage boxes with found-object contents. In 1962, Schloss left for Italy, where she would remain for the rest of her life, drawing inspiration from the Mediterranean landscape, and working in community with artists Giorgo Morandi and Cy Twombly. Her paintings explored the intersection of the intimate and the sublime and represent, as she wrote, the “quiet and balance in still lifes of homespun objects lined up against the pageant of the sea.”
