Willem De Kooning: Reflections in the Studio

by Edvard Lieber, Willem De Kooning

A uniquely intimate portrayal of Willem and Elaine de Kooning that corrects and enriches many myths about the artists, and re-examines the Abstract Expressionist movement.

138 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 2000

About the author

Edvard Lieber has appeared in Europe, North America, and South America as a concert pianist, composer, chamber musician, soloist with orchestra, and guest artist on numerous radio and television broadcasts. He worked as a cinematographer on ten feature films for German and Swiss television from 1976 through 1982, and withdrew from the concert stage in 1983, to create works fusing multiple art forms. His first independent film, Seven Portraits (1983, Willem De Kooning, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Tennessee Williams, Andy Warhol, John Cage, Liv Ullmann), was featured in six international film festivals, including the 1984 Berlin International Film Festival, 1984 São Paulo Film Festival, and 1984 Taipei International Film Festival. He taught for thirty years at the School of Visual Arts in New York (1978–2008), where he created two courses correlating nine art forms.