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Albert Bloch (August 2, 1882 – March 23, 1961) was an American Modernist artist and the only American artist associated with
Bloch was born on August 2, 1882, in St. Louis, Missouri. He studied at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts and the
File:Prof Wayupski Bloch.jpg, Albert Bloch, 1902, "Prof. Wayupski's Aerial Stunts", ''St. Louis Star''
File:Albert Bloch, 1916, Summer Night, oil on canvas, 119 x 114 cm, private collection.jpg, Albert Bloch, 1913, ''Summer Night'', oil on canvas, 119 x 114 cm
Missouri Remembers: Artists in Missouri through 1951
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 {{US-painter-1880s-stub
Der Blaue Reiter
''Der Blaue Reiter'' (''The Blue Rider'') was a group of artists and a designation by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc for their exhibition and publication activities, in which both artists acted as sole editors in the almanac of the same name ...
(The Blue Rider), a group of early 20th-century European modernists.
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
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is a private art school associated with the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) in Chicago, Illinois. Tracing its history to an art students' cooperative founded in 1866, which grew into the museum a ...
. In 1901–03 he produced comic strips and cartoons for the '' St. Louis Star'' newspaper. 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
''Der Blaue Reiter'' (''The Blue Rider'') was a group of artists and a designation by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc for their exhibition and publication activities, in which both artists acted as sole editors in the almanac of the same name ...
.
After the end of World War I
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, Bloch returned to the United States, teaching at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is a Private university, private art school associated with the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) in Chicago, Illinois. Tracing its history to an art students' cooperative founded in 1866, which gr ...
for a year, and then accepting a Departmental Head position at the University of Kansas
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until his retirement in 1947.
Albert Bloch died March 23, 1961, in Lawrence, Kansas
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.
Albert Bloch had two sons, Bernard and Walter, with his first wife, Hortense. Bernard Bloch, was a distinguished American linguist.
His work is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago
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, The Jewish Museum, the Museum of Modern Art
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, the Smithsonian American Art Museum
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, and the Whitney Museum of American Art
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.
Selected works
References
Further reading
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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 {{US-painter-1880s-stub