MEL RAMOS  (1935 – 2018)

American pop artist Mel Ramos was born Melvin John Ramos in 1935 in Sacramento, California.

Mel Ramos studied art and art history at Sacramento Junior College. After that, the young artist went to State College from 1953-1958, where Wayne Thiebaud was his teacher. In the early 1960s, Mel Ramos taught in the Bay Area (CA).

From 1966 to 1997, Mel Ramos taught as a professor of painting at California State University (Hayward). In addition, Mel Ramos has taught at the University of Wisconsin and Syracuse University.

Alongside Roy Lichtenstein (1928-1987), Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol, Mel Ramos is today regarded as one of the most important artists and painters of American pop art.

As an artist of his time, Mel Ramos speaks the visual language of the Pop Art generation and henceforth creates a new, very unique one

Mel Ramos Iconography in Art

His “Commercial Pin-up Girls” merge with the aesthetics of the beautiful, colorful world of advertising and appeal to the viewer in a striking way.

Galerie Jeanne, located in downtown Munich, is exhibiting the following signed and numbered series prints and lithographs by Mel Ramos 

Mel Ramos, ‘Lola Cola # 4‘ – lithograph from 2004
Mel Ramos, ‘Five Flavor Fannie’ – a series graphic from 2006
Mel Ramos, ‘Caramia Caramello‘ – lithograph from 2007
Mel Ramos, ‘Snickers‘ – lithograph from 2004
MEL RAMOS, ‘Drawing Lesson’ – a series graphic from 2016

Mel Ramos works of art can be found in international exhibitions, museums and collections:

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York
Oakland Museum of California
Contemporary Art Museum in Houston
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City
Whitney Museum of American Art in New York
Royal Academy of Arts, London
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts)
National Portrait Gallery, London
State Gallery in Stuttgart
Kunsthalle Tübingen, (first European retrospective of the artist)
2011 – Mel Ramos, Villa Stuck, Munich
2011 – Mel Ramos. Girls, Candies & Comics, Albertina, Vienna
2012 – Mel Ramos retrospective, Albertina Vienna
2015 – Mel Ramos. My Age of Pop. Ludwig Museum Koblenz

For further positions of Mel Ramos in the Galerie Jeanne in Munich or if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us.

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