Waterfront

John von Wicht

After emigrating from Germany to the U.S. Vom Wicht settled in New York and found work as a lithographer and as a stained glass and mosaic artist.

During World War II, von Wicht served as captain of a supply barge ferrying food to army transport ships in New York harbor. Harbor themes began to appear in his abstractions and, during the 1950s, his sensuously colored geometric abstractions gave way to loose, expressionistic forms.

In "Waterfront" Von Wicht's stained glass and mosaic background can be found in the flattened, interlocking and overlapping shapes in the composition.