Pin up Pop Art "Virnaburger" (1965), limited offset lithograph by Mel Ramos

About Mel Ramos 1935-2018, American pop art artist He was one of the great painters of American pop art. Mel Ramos, born on July 24, 1935 in Sacramento, who was born on July 24, 1935, was adorned by his pin-up girls, which decorated the famous branded articles. The pop art artist studied art at Sacramento College. At the beginning of the 1960s, Ramos began to produce series of pictures that are borrowed from motive comic strips and which are noticeable due to their brightly colored colors. From 1965 the work that has become his trademark was created: it combines naked beauties from American magazines with well -known objects of the world of goods. From this he developed his own iconography, which is characterized by the over -emphasized naked figure, which is eliminated by the redesigned background. "I make sure that my pictures are not too erotic, that they always have a hint of humor. Either you understand what is meant or not." At times his works were seen as the epitome of the bad taste and the artist was subordinate to the artist sexism. From 1966-1997 Mel Ramos taught as a professor of painting at California State University, Hayward. Today Mel Ramos is in a row with Warhol, Lichtenstein and Wesselmann. His works have already been presented in numerous exhibitions and can be found in the most important collections of modern art. In Germany, too, his work is part of well -known museums and collections. "The fact that Mel Ramos has now risen from the ashes of aesthetic rejection and has been in great demand is hardly required," said the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 2011. Ramos' works are collected worldwide. Mel Ramos died on October 14, 2018 in his home town of Oakland/California.