Arny Karl, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Arny Karl

American artist

Date of Birth: 31-Jul-1940

Date of Death: 15-Feb-2000

Profession: painter

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Arny Karl (birth name: Arnold Helmut Karl) (July 31, 1940 - February 15, 2000) was one of the key artists in the early stages of the California Plein-Air Revival, which started in the 1980s and continues to this day.
Along with Tim Solliday (b.
1952) and Peter Seitz Adams (b.
1950), Karl helped revitalize the use of pastels to paint outdoors or en plein air, as the French described regarding the practice of working directly from nature.
Karl was a student of Theodore Lukits (1897–1992), who was a prominent California Impressionist and the best known Early California painter to have worked in pastel.
His work has been included in a number of museum exhibitions, is represented in a number of prominent public and private collections and has been the subject of a number of curatorial essays.