Albert Bloch
Albert Bloch (born August 2, 1882 in St. Louis , Missouri , † December 9, 1961 in Lawrence , Kansas ) was an American painter , writer and translator .
life and work
Bloch, whose parents emigrated from Bohemia to the USA in 1869 , attended the St. Louis School of Fine Arts from 1898 to 1900 and also worked as an illustrator for the satirical newspaper The Mirror , where his more than 200 caricatures bore features of Art Nouveau . From 1908 he lived in Munich , where he joined the artists' circle of the Blue Rider . The gallery “Sturm” organized exhibitions for him all over Europe, for example he was involved in the First German Autumn Salon with the painting “Der tote Pierrot” . His subjects were landscapes, cityscapes, portraits, and circus pictures , whereby his style changed into cubist . Bloch returned to the United States in 1921 and took a professorship at the University of Kansas in 1923 , where he died in 1961.
Bloch was always very self-critical. He destroyed any image he thought was imperfect. Many of his pictures fell victim to the “ Degenerate Art ” campaign during the National Socialist era . That is why so few early works have survived.
His literary activity is characterized by translations from the works of Karl Kraus , Georg Trakl and Johann Wolfgang Goethe into English.
literature
- Frank Baron, Helmut Arntzen , David Cateforis (eds.): Albert Bloch. Artistic and Literary Perspectives. Artistic and literary perspectives . Prestel Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7913-1777-6 (commentary on the exhibition "Albert Bloch, An American Blue Rider")
- Annegret Hoberg and Henry Adams (eds.): Albert Bloch. An American Blue Rider . Prestel, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7913-1776-8 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name in the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus Munich, April 16 to June 29, 1997).
- Volker Rattemeyer (ed.): The spiritual in art. From the Blue Rider to Abstract Expressionism . Museum Wiesbaden , Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-89258-088-1 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name, October 21, 2010 to February 27, 2011).
Web links
- Biography (English) ( Memento of 19 January 2013, Internet Archive )
- Painting by Albert Bloch at cgfa ( Memento from August 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- Brenner archive of the University of Innsbruck
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bloch, Albert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter, writer, and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 2, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Louis , Missouri , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 9, 1961 |
| Place of death | Lawrence , Kansas , USA |