Morris Katz (born Moshe Katz on March 5, 1932 in Galicia, Poland, died November 12, 2010 at age 78 in The Bronx, New York) was a Jewish-American painter. Katz was born in 1932 in Galicia, Poland.[2] At age 13 he studied under Dr. Hans Fokler of the Munich Academy.[1] [2]After World War II, he lived for a while in a displaced persons camp, where he earned a diploma in carpentry, and he has since said that toilet paper is his "diploma in art."[1]
He moved to the United States in 1949, when he took a job in carpentry while maintaining a sideline with his art.[1] While working on his unpublished Dictionary of Color in 1956, he decided to try painting with his palette knife instead of his brushes.[1] After some time he also began experimenting with the use of rags; when he ran out of rags he turned to toilet tissue.[1] As of February 2007, over his career he had painted more than 280,000 paintings.[3]
Over his long career, he established himself as a painter, comedian, and television personality.[1][4]
An obituary [5] described him as "creating 'instant art' and entertaining generations of guests in the old Borscht Belt hotels.
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- Salzberg, Charles (Nov 13, 1978). "The King of Toilet Paper Art" New York Magazine/New York Media.
- "Biography of Morris Katz". imdb.com. Retrieved 2009-09-20.
- "The World's Fastest Painter Returns to Boca Raton" Yaacov Heller. Retrieved 2009-09-20.
- "Instant Art Show". imdb.com. Retrieved 2009-09-20.
- The Jewish Press, Nov. 19, 2010