Kurt Ferdinand Roesch (1905–1984) was a German-born American painter.

Biography

Roesch was born on September 12, 1905 in Berlin and studied painting with the expressionist

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. Roesch immigrated to the United States in 1933, living first in

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, and then in

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. He taught at

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from 1934 to 1972, and died October 8, 1984, at his home in

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. ''Man with Bird'' from 1977, in the collection of the

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, demonstrates his semiabstract images that often reference animals or plants. The

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(Youngstown, Ohio), the

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(Columbus, Ohio), the

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(Minneapolis, Minnesota), the

, the

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, the

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(New York City), and the

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(Lincoln, Nebraska) are among the public collections holding works by Roesch.

References

* 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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Roesch, Kurt 20th-century American painters American modern painters 20th-century American photographers Artists from the Province of Brandenburg 1905 births 1984 deaths Emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States