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Norman Raeben
Norman Raeben (1901 – 12 December 1978) was an American painter, lecturer and teacher.
Numa Rabinowitz (aka Norman Raeben) was born in Kiev, in the Russian Empire, the youngest of the six children of Sholom Aleichem, famous Yiddish writer of various novels about Jewish characters, including Tevye the Milkman, which served a blueprint for the musical Fiddler on the Roof.
Raeben moved to New York City with his family a first time in 1907 and then permanently in 1914. After studying at the Educational Alliance with Abbo Ostrowsky, between 1918 and 1924, he took painting lessons at the Art Students League of New York from various painters, including Robert Henri, George Luks, Max Weber (artist) and John French Sloan, and was directly involved in the Ashcan School of Painting movement. After being active as a painter in New York and Paris in the 1920s and 1930s, in 1946 he opened a studio on the 11th floor of Carnegie Hall.
His students included Bob Dylan, Stella Adler, Polly Adler, Dorothy Bird, Bernice Sokol Kramer, Andrew Gottlieb, Janet Cohn, John Smith-Amato, Diana Postel, Lori Lerner, Rosalyn (Roz) Jacobs and the photographer, Larry Herman. Raeben's mission was to teach the art of painting through intuition and feeling, instead of through conceptualization. During the seventies, his inspiring lessons ran counter to the then prevalent conceptualism of contemporary mainstream art.
Early in 1974, Bob Dylan studied painting with Raeben five days a week from 8:30 am to 4:00 in the afternoon, for two months. This was when he was composing his album Blood on the Tracks. Dylan said that Raeben "put my mind and my hand and my eye together, in a way that allowed me to do consciously what I unconsciously felt." Dylan said that Raeben "didn’t teach you so much how to draw … he looked into you and told you what you were." Raeben taught Dylan how to create narratives that placed "yesterday, today and tomorrow all in the same room." Dylan's song "Tangled Up in Blue" took its title from a comment that Raeben made regarding one of Dylan's paintings.
Bob Dylan was mystified, at first, by Norman's didactic insistence on perceptual honesty, i.e. on not exaggerating the truth of what was seen, when first learning the basics of drawing. "Bob", Norman said, "look at that round coffee table. Now, show me how you would paint it."
Raeben was a chess prodigy. His father once claimed that if he earned millions from Hollywood, he would buy his son a gold chess set.
He died of a heart attack in the lobby of his apartment. He was survived by his wife, Victoria, his son, Jay Raeben, president of the Physicians Radio Network, and his sister–the author, Marie Waife‐Goldberg.
Norman Raeben
Norman Raeben (1901 – 12 December 1978) was an American painter, lecturer and teacher.
Numa Rabinowitz (aka Norman Raeben) was born in Kiev, in the Russian Empire, the youngest of the six children of Sholom Aleichem, famous Yiddish writer of various novels about Jewish characters, including Tevye the Milkman, which served a blueprint for the musical Fiddler on the Roof.
Raeben moved to New York City with his family a first time in 1907 and then permanently in 1914. After studying at the Educational Alliance with Abbo Ostrowsky, between 1918 and 1924, he took painting lessons at the Art Students League of New York from various painters, including Robert Henri, George Luks, Max Weber (artist) and John French Sloan, and was directly involved in the Ashcan School of Painting movement. After being active as a painter in New York and Paris in the 1920s and 1930s, in 1946 he opened a studio on the 11th floor of Carnegie Hall.
His students included Bob Dylan, Stella Adler, Polly Adler, Dorothy Bird, Bernice Sokol Kramer, Andrew Gottlieb, Janet Cohn, John Smith-Amato, Diana Postel, Lori Lerner, Rosalyn (Roz) Jacobs and the photographer, Larry Herman. Raeben's mission was to teach the art of painting through intuition and feeling, instead of through conceptualization. During the seventies, his inspiring lessons ran counter to the then prevalent conceptualism of contemporary mainstream art.
Early in 1974, Bob Dylan studied painting with Raeben five days a week from 8:30 am to 4:00 in the afternoon, for two months. This was when he was composing his album Blood on the Tracks. Dylan said that Raeben "put my mind and my hand and my eye together, in a way that allowed me to do consciously what I unconsciously felt." Dylan said that Raeben "didn’t teach you so much how to draw … he looked into you and told you what you were." Raeben taught Dylan how to create narratives that placed "yesterday, today and tomorrow all in the same room." Dylan's song "Tangled Up in Blue" took its title from a comment that Raeben made regarding one of Dylan's paintings.
Bob Dylan was mystified, at first, by Norman's didactic insistence on perceptual honesty, i.e. on not exaggerating the truth of what was seen, when first learning the basics of drawing. "Bob", Norman said, "look at that round coffee table. Now, show me how you would paint it."
Raeben was a chess prodigy. His father once claimed that if he earned millions from Hollywood, he would buy his son a gold chess set.
He died of a heart attack in the lobby of his apartment. He was survived by his wife, Victoria, his son, Jay Raeben, president of the Physicians Radio Network, and his sister–the author, Marie Waife‐Goldberg.
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