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Vaclav Vytlacil
Vaclav Vytlacil was born in New York to Czech immigrant parents in 1892.[1] As a long established teacher at the Art Students League, he was renowned for promoting European modernism in the 1930s. Best known for recognizing and promoting American abstraction, he is also one of the founding members of the American Abstract Artists in 1936.[2]
He was a student of Hans Hoffman from 1922 to 1926[3] and was a teacher famous artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Robert Blackburn, Knox Martin, Frank O'Cain, Robert Rauschenberg, Catherine Redmond, James Rosenquist, and Cy Twombly.[4] [5]