Albert Bloch
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Albert Bloch (August 2, 1882 – March 23, 1961) was an American Modernist artist and the only American artist associated with Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a group of early 20th-century European modernists.[1]
Biography
Bloch was born on August 2, 1882, in St. Louis, Missouri. He studied at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts.[2] In 1901–03 he produced comic strips and cartoons for the St. Louis Star newspaper.[3] Between 1905 and 1908 he worked as a caricaturist and illustrator for William Marion Reedy's literary and political weekly The Mirror.
From 1909 to 1921, Bloch lived and worked mainly in Germany, where he was associated with Der Blaue Reiter.[4] After the end of World War I, Bloch returned to the United States, teaching at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for a year, and then accepting a Departmental Head position at the University of Kansas until his retirement in 1947.[5]
Albert Bloch died March 23, 1961, in Lawrence, Kansas.[2]
Albert Bloch had two sons, Bernard and Walter, with his first wife, Hortense. Bernard Bloch, was a distinguished American linguist.[6]
His work is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago,[7] The Jewish Museum,[8] the Museum of Modern Art,[9] the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[10] and the Whitney Museum of American Art.[11]
Selected works
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Albert Bloch, 1902, "Prof. Wayupski's Aerial Stunts", St. Louis Star
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Albert Bloch, 1913, Summer Night, oil on canvas, 119 x 114 cm
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- Missouri Remembers: Artists in Missouri through 1951
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- 1882 births
- 1961 deaths
- 20th-century American painters
- American male painters
- 20th-century American educators
- Modernism
- University of Kansas faculty
- American expatriates in Germany
- Artists from Chicago
- Artists from St. Louis
- American Expressionist painters
- 20th-century American male artists