Anthony Krauss

Anthony Krauss, a renowned Visual Artist and Sculptor and a vital member of the Woodstock art community for 50 years, died Thursday, August 29, 2024, at the Columbia Memorial Hospital in Hudson. He was 87. At the pinnacle of his career, he was best known for large-scale outdoor sculptures that interact with their environment — whether crafted from mirrored aluminum, so that both nature, and the viewer, are reflected in the artwork, or from a range of soft woods that weather in interesting ways when exposed to the elements.

Anthony was born on October 22, 1936, to Murray Krauss and Frances Lutz Krauss. Growing up in New York City, he developed a passion and talent for art. After earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Syracuse University and a Master's in Painting from Ohio State University, he studied at the Art Students League in New York and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. His work has been exhibited up and down the East Coast and in California, Japan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Germany. In the year 2000, he won the Lorenzo De Medici Sculpture Award at the Biennale Internazionale Dell'Arte in Florence, Italy. He also has pieces in the permanent collections of the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC, and the Whitney Museum in New York City. He was a long-time member and ardent supporter of the Woodstock Art Association, and his house and outdoor sculpture garden were a regular fixture on the annual Woodstock Artists' Studio Tour.

He is survived by his nephew, David Krauss (and David's wife, Becky), of Las Vegas; his niece, Jennifer Krauss, of Rhinebeck; three grand-nephews and one grand-niece.

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