William Utermohlen
American painter (1933-2007) · United States · On the map · Artists · Died at 73
William Charles Utermohlen was an American figurative artist known for his late-period self-portraits completed after his diagnosis of probable Alzheimer's disease. He was diagnosed in 1995, having had progressive memory loss since 1991.
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Utermohlen was educated and received his scholarship at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA).
The Schizmatics (Canto XXVIII), which was created in 1966, is one of the paintings in Utermohlen's Cantos series.
This synapse diagram contains recreations of the 1967 self-portrait and Head I.
Utermohlen's posthumous portrait of Gerald Penny (1974)About this person
After diagnosis, he began a series of self-portraits influenced by both the figurative painter Francis Bacon and cinematographers from the German Expressionism movement. The last of his self-portraits was completed c. 2001, some six years before his death.
