Neil Printz 'Portrait of Society'
A lecture in English on 'Beethoven by Warhol'
- Neil Printz, Editor of the 'Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné' (comprehensive catalogue of his works), funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
The lecture provides an in-depth insight into Warhol’s development as a social portraitist, from his early commissioned portraits in the 1970s, through the commercial evolution of this body of work in the 1980s, to the BEETHOVEN portfolio (1987), the last series of prints completed during the artist's lifetime.
Neil Printz has been co-editor of the 'Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné' since 1993. Each volume of the 'Catalogue Raisonné' documents all of Warhol’s paintings, sculptures and drawings from a specific period and also examines his source material and working methods.
Printz obtained his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in art history at the University of Michigan. He subsequently obtained his M.Phil. and Ph.D. in art history at the Graduate Centre of the City University of New York.
From 1995 to 2004, Printz was a member of the board of the 'Andy Warhol Authentication Board' and, from 1999 to 2004, editor of the 'Isamu Noguchi Catalogue Raisonné'. Printz was also an assistant professor of art history at Caldwell College and a Henry Luce Visiting Scholar in American Art at the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University.