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. He holds two Guinness World Records as the world's fastest painter and the world's most prolific artist. He has also been called the "King of Schlock Art" and the "King of Toilet Paper Art" because of a novel means of painting he developed using a palette knife and toilet tissue instead of a paintbrush.
Listed in Ripley's Believe it or Not as as a human oddity for painting full works of art in less than five minutes using his Instant Art Method.
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Listed twice in Guiness Book of World Records - once for being the fastest artist in the world and second for painting more paintings than any other artist alive or dead. Morris beat out Picasso in the 1990s.
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Studied painting under Dr. Hans Fokler of the Munich Academy.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Headspace
2005
Additional Park Background
The Pedestrian
2001
Short
Man with Remote
Instant Art Show
1980
TV Series
Instant Artist
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Instant Art Show
1980
TV Series
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Ripley's Believe It or Not!
2001
TV Series
Himself - Artist
The Mike Douglas Show
1978
TV Series
Himself
Known for movies
Instant Art Show (1980) as Instant Artist
Headspace (2005) as Additional Park Background
The Pedestrian (2001) as Man with Remote
Ripley's Believe It or Not! (2001) as Himself - Artist
$13 Million
