Kurt Roesch

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Kurt Ferdinand Roesch (born December 12, 1905 in Berlin , † October 8, 1984 in New Canaan , Connecticut , USA ) was a German-American painter and writer.

Kurt Roesch studied painting from 1925 to 1926 with the expressionist Karl Hofer (1878–1955) in Berlin.

In 1933 Roesch emigrated to America and lived and worked there for many years in Katonah (New York), later in New Canaan, (Connecticut).

From 1934 to 1972 he was an art teacher at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville (New York).

Roesch's abstract painting is of international importance. He was a participant in documenta 1 (1955) and documenta II in 1959 in Kassel .

His works belong, among others, to the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Kurt Roesch died on October 8, 1984 at the age of 79 in his home in New Canaan.

Sources and literature

  • Falk, Peter Hastings; Who Was Who in American Art; Artists Active 1898-1947, 1985
  • Barr, Alfred; Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art, 1977
  • Jaques Cattell Press; Who's Who in American Art, 12th Edition, 1976
  • Buffalo Fine Arts Academy; American Art in Upstate New York; Drawings, Watercolors and Small Sculptures, 1974
  • Janis, Sidney; Abstract-Surrealist Art in America, 1969
  • Pousette-Dart, Nathaniel; American Painting Today, 1956
  • Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge; Index of Artists International Biographical (2 Vols), 1948

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