World Surrealist Exhibition in Chicago 1976 -- Tristan’s wall-sized assemblage “Amerika” (retitled “The Domain of T-Bone Slim”) stood out among a wealth of unusual and very original art. “Amerika” absorbed an astounding array of battered and castaway objects including hats, helmets, boots, chair legs, hammered metal, torn canvas, and, most memorably, the headboard of a decrepit brass bed.

 

 

 

Tristan Meinecke, 88, died of heart failure Wednesday, Feb. 25, in St. Francis Hospital in Evanston Illinois.

Born in Atchison, Kan., and raised in the Ann Arbor, Michigan area. In many ways he took after his father, Bruno Meinecke, a prominent Latin scholar at the University of Michigan who also conducted the Unviersty symphony orchestra for a time.

After studying art at the University of Michigan from 1938 to 1942, he moved to Chicago in 1943.

 

 

 

 

The Artwork of Tristan Meinecke Online

 

 

 

 

"Mr. Meinecke did both realistic and abstract Painting, setting him apart from other artists: "In a time when people
were forced to choose between abstraction and figuration," In the mid-1950s, Mr. Meinecke created "split-level paintings," which have canvas surfaces with one painting style cut away to reveal other painted images in another style underneath".

 

 

 

 

 

 

Heterogeneous Icons -- the name of a seminal split-level painting, was exhibited in the American Show at SAIC in 1957.

"The New Republic, after the show, [described it as] “the only painting in the show that pushes back the frontiers of art.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mixing mediums and idions in art as well as life -- Meinecke was a modern artist and also an architect, professional musician, published writer, father and husband married to the "Love of his life", Lorraine "Angel Casey" Meinecke for over 50 years.

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