Albert Bloch

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.

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. 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.
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.

Albert Bloch died March 23, 1961, in Lawrence, Kansas.

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, The Jewish Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Selected works

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

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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
Expressionist painters
20th-century American male artists

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