1776 - 2026
Mort Künstler’s
art celebrates the 250th Anniversary of our “New Nation.”
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Morton Künstler 1927 - 2025
Our 97-year-old artist, father, friend, and colleague passed away on February 2, 2025. He had a prolific life and career, yet happily said many times “I never worked a day in my life!” He is missed by all who were lucky to have known him and his paintings.
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History in Photos
1981
Robert Anderson, CEO of Rockwell International, Mrs. Anderson, Deborah and Mort Künstler are seen here at the opening of the exhibition, “An American Adventure” at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts in 1981. The painting shown is “First Launch of the Space Shuttle Columbia,” one of a series of paintings Mort Künstler completed documenting the building, testing, first launch and touch down of the Columbia. Commissioned by Rockwell International, prime contractor of the Shuttle, the paintings are now in the permanent collection of the Museum of Science and Technology in Los Angeles.
Mort Künstler is second to none in his portrayal of battle, whether it is the carnage at Antietam’s bloody Lane or history’s first clash of ironclad warships. And he is unequaled in pictorial descriptions of the marching, the waiting, the maneuvering. Künstler is also unsurpassed in his portrayal of winter scenes, with the shimmering blue-white of snow at dusk casting a half light of eerie beauty.
Prof. James M. McPherson
Author, Battle Cry of Freedom