Daniel Brustlein

Daniel Brustlein, Biala's husband and companion until his death in 1996, was born in the Alsatian town of Mulhouse in 1904. He became a U.S. citizen in 1933. His first solo exhibition in New York was mounted by the legendary Stable Gallery in 1955.

Brustlein's work is distinguished by a remarkable economy of form and an appealing delicacy of glowing color. In his review of a 1978 solo exhibition for The New York Times, the critic Hilton Kramer wrote that "in everything Brustlein paints there is a sensibility of great refinement" and of his having a "beautiful control over the precise emotion he wants [his chosen medium of oil paint] to convey".

His stark and figurative works share a concern for subject, for content, and for meaning with other abstract expressionist artists of the same generation. This deliberate intention toward the iconographic coming out of abstraction is best reflected in Brustlein's attempt to communicate fleeting impressions and situations visually.

Selected One Person Exhibitions

• 1999 Kouros Gallery, New York
• 1997 Kouros Gallery, New York
• 1990 Kouros Gallery, New York
• 1988 Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France
• 1987 Grünebaum Gallery, New York (with Biala)
• 1983 Musée Savoisien Chambéry, France
• 1978 A.M. Sachs Gallery, New York
• 1975 Galerie Jacob, Paris, France
• 1969 Galerie Jacob, Paris, France
• 1964 Saidenberg Gallery, New York
• 1959 Stable Gallery, New York
• 1955 Stable Gallery, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 1988 Sala Pares, Barcelona, Spain (with Biala)
• 1971 Prix de Portrait, Musée Marmottan, Paris, France
• 1969 Traveling exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, to seven American museums and universities
• 1967 National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
• 1966 USA Arte Vivo, Musée de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
• 1965 Portraits, New School, New York
• 1962 Trois Peintres Americains, Musée de Rennes, Rennes, France
• 1962 Surindépendants, Paris, France
• 1961 École de Paris, Paris, France
• 1958 Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.
• 1953 Stable Annual, New York
• 1952 Stable Annual, New York
• 1952 Formes et Couleurs, Musée de Lausanne, Lausanne, France