David Ludwig Bloch
David Ludwig Bloch (born March 25, 1910 in Floß , † September 16, 2002 in Barrytown , New York ) was a porcelain painter , painter and lithographer .
Life
Bloch was born the son of the businessman Simon Bloch and his wife Selma. A few weeks after the birth his mother died, his father a short time later in 1911. Bloch was taken in by relatives. As a child he lost his hearing due to meningitis . At the age of five he started school in Munich in what was then the state dust- mute institute. Following this, Bloch attended Karl Brauckmann's private school "for the hearing impaired and deaf" in Jena .
In 1925 he began an apprenticeship in porcelain painting, became a porcelain painter and, after becoming unemployed in 1934 due to the global economic crisis , began studying at the State School for Applied Painting in Munich. During this time Bloch already participated in exhibitions of the Jewish Cultural Association of Bavaria . After he had to drop out of his studies due to lack of money, Bloch became a graphic designer and decorator at the Sallinger department store in Straubing . After the department store was Aryanized , Bloch became unemployed again. He was excluded from studying in Munich as a Jew. Bloch was arrested in the days of the Reichspogromnacht and interned in the Dachau concentration camp for four weeks . After his release from Dachau, Bloch got a job with the master painter Heinz Voges in Munich.
On April 3, 1940, he emigrated to Shanghai . There Bloch married the deaf Chinese Lilly Cheng Disiu. During this time, he created woodcuts and watercolors, among other things, with six published cycles (volumes) each with 60 or more woodcuts aroused great attention in the Chinese art circles with the titles: "China", "Yin Yang", "Beggar", "Rickshaw" , "Children", and "Miniatures". In the cuts he concentrated on the living conditions of the lower classes of the Chinese people.
In 1949 he moved to New York and worked there as an art lithographer for 26 years . He drew all of the chinaware for the Nixon's White House. For the first time since 1940 Bloch returned to Germany in 1976 . After this trip he dealt intensively with the Holocaust .
Honors
- In 1997 David L. Bloch was awarded the Culture Prize of the German Association of the Deaf .
- In 2004 David L. Bloch was posthumously given honorary citizenship of his place of birth Floß (Upper Palatinate) ; see honorary citizen of raft
Exhibitions
- "David Ludwig Bloch: My pictures are my language." In the Dachau concentration camp memorial . Duration: January 30, 2004 to May 3, 2004
- "David Ludwig Bloch - Munich - Shanghai - New York - An exhibition on the artist's 90th birthday." In the Jewish Museum in Munich . Duration: July 19, 2000 to December 14, 2000
Publications
- B. Hoster, R. Malek, K. Wenzel-Teuber: David Ludwig Bloch. Woodcuts Shanghai 1940-1949 , Steyler Verlag: Sankt Augustin 1997
- Horst Biesold: The Shanghai Woodcuts by David Ludwig Bloch ( Memento from January 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
Web links
- Literature by and about David Ludwig Bloch in the catalog of the German National Library
- David Ludwig Bloch's biography on www.exilarchiv.de
- David Ludwig Bloch ( Memento from June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on arts in exile
- David Ludwig Bloch archive in the archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ Picture of the honor ( memento from January 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bloch, David Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | raft |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 16, 2002 |
| Place of death | Barrytown , New York |