Mashel teitelbaum biography of michael
Born in Toronto, Ontario, Teitelbaum is the third child and only son of the late painter Mashel Teitelbaum..
Born in Saskatoon a century ago, Teitelbaum carried the flat aching heart of “prairieness” with him throughout his unsettled and unsettling.
Mashel Teitelbaum
Canadian artist (1921-1985)
Mashel Teitelbaum (1921–1985) (variant name Mashel Alexander Teitelbaum) was a Canadian painter, born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1921.[1] He was the father of museum director Matthew Teitelbaum.
Career
Teitelbaum studied from 1950 to 1951 at the California School of Fine Arts with Clyfford Still and at Mills College with Max Beckmann.[1] After living in Montreal for a time, Teitelbaum moved to Toronto.
In Toronto, worked as a set designer for CBC Television and served as art critic for the Toronto Telegram for over a decade.[2] He then studied art in Europe, and taught at the School of Fine Arts at the University of Manitoba before returning to Toronto, founding the New School of Art at New School, Toronto in 1962.[2]
Art work
At first, Teitelbaum painted his own form of portraits featuring expressionism, then landscapes of various regions in Canada.[2][3]