CONRAD ALBRIZIO

Conrad Albrizio was born in New York City in 1894. Influenced by his architect father, Albrizio moved to New Orleans as an architectural designer in 1920. He soon became exposed to the New Orleans arts circle, forming relationships with Sherwood Anderson and William Faulkner. In 1923, he returned to New York to study at the Art Students League. He then traveled to Europe to study frescoes. This aided him in his murals he would paint in the same decade funded through the WPA in New York, Detroit, Alabama, and Louisiana. He was also commissioned by Governor Huey P. Long to paint the murals in the Louisiana State Capitol. He taught art at LSU from 1935 until his retirement in 1954. His later work developed more abstract qualities, and he died in Baton Rouge in 1973 at the age of 79.