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.
We greatly appreciate the outpouring of condolence messages and notes. Thank you.
History in Photos
1980
Robert Anderson, CEO of Rockwell International, prime contractor for the Space Shuttle visited Mort Künstler in his studio in Oyster Bay, New York in 1980. Rockwell had commissioned Künstler to document the building, testing, first launch and touchdown of the first space shuttle. Künstler did more than forty paintings, drawings and sketches that are now in the collection of the Museum of Science and Technology in Los Angeles. Mr. Anderson visited the artist's studio when he wished to see the progress of the first painting in the series, appropriately titled “First Rollout,” showing the Enterprise being pushed out of the hangar for the first time.
Mort Künstler’s art is known for its graphic realism and vivid detail. He has spent a lifetime studying costumes and gear, the appurtenances of different periods of our past. And in almost every painting he tells a story, adding another dimension to the great American saga.
Dee Brown
Historian and Author, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee