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1916 Berkeley, California - 1991 Berkeley, California. Known for: Modernist figure, abstract painting, teaching.
BISCHOFF, ELMER NELSON. Elmer Bischoff was born on July 6, 1916 in Berkeley, California. He studied at the University of California at Berkeley. Bischoff grew up in a home that valued the arts,... Read full biography
BISCHOFF, ELMER NELSON. Elmer Bischoff was born on July 6, 1916 in Berkeley, California. He studied at the University of California at Berkeley. Bischoff grew up in a home that valued the arts, painting and making music were important to him since childhood. As an art student he had spent about ten... Read full biography
BISCHOFF, ELMER NELSON. Elmer Bischoff was born on July 6, 1916 in Berkeley, California. He studied at the University of California at Berkeley. Bischoff grew up in a home that valued the arts, painting and making music were important to him since childhood. As an art student he had spent about ten years painting in the style of Picasso. Following graduation from Berkeley in 1939, Bischoff became a ceramics and jewelry teacher at a high school in Sacramento, California and then served in the... Read full biography
BISCHOFF, ELMER NELSON. Elmer Bischoff was born on July 6, 1916 in Berkeley, California. He studied at the University of California at Berkeley. Bischoff grew up in a home that valued the arts, painting and making music were important to him since childhood. As an art student he had spent about ten years painting in the style of Picasso. Following graduation from Berkeley in 1939, Bischoff became a ceramics and jewelry teacher at a high school in Sacramento, California and then served in the military for three years In 1946 he joined the faculty of the California School of Fine Arts, the wellspring of the Abstract Expressionist movement on the West Coast. The close friendships formed there with painters Richard Diebenkorn, Frank Lobdell,... Read full biography
BISCHOFF, ELMER NELSON. Elmer Bischoff was born on July 6, 1916 in Berkeley, California. He studied at the University of California at Berkeley. Bischoff grew up in a home that valued the arts, painting and making music were important to him since childhood. As an art student he had spent about ten years painting in the style of Picasso. Following graduation from Berkeley in 1939, Bischoff became a ceramics and jewelry teacher at a high school in Sacramento, California and then served in the military for three years In 1946 he joined the faculty of the California School of Fine Arts, the wellspring of the Abstract Expressionist movement on the West Coast. The close friendships formed there with painters Richard Diebenkorn, Frank Lobdell, David Park and Hassel Smith greatly influenced him. This group began to revitalize the figurative... Read full biography