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1882 St. Louis, Missouri - 1961 Lawrence, Kansas. Known for: Crowd genre, religious and animal painting, etching, teaching.
Born in St. Louis, Missouri on August 2, 1882, Albert Bloch was born to a Bohemian-Jewish immigrant father and a mother who was a German Jew. But Bloch was not raised in the Jewish faith and he later... Read full biography
Born in St. Louis, Missouri on August 2, 1882, Albert Bloch was born to a Bohemian-Jewish immigrant father and a mother who was a German Jew. But Bloch was not raised in the Jewish faith and he later adopted a form of Christianity. Bloch quit high school at sixteen to study at the St. Louis School... Read full biography
Born in St. Louis, Missouri on August 2, 1882, Albert Bloch was born to a Bohemian-Jewish immigrant father and a mother who was a German Jew. But Bloch was not raised in the Jewish faith and he later adopted a form of Christianity. Bloch quit high school at sixteen to study at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts from 1898 to 1900 with Dawson Dawson-Watkins. Block began his art career as a caricaturist for a satirical newspaper, The Saint Louis Mirror under editor and publisher, William Marion... Read full biography
Born in St. Louis, Missouri on August 2, 1882, Albert Bloch was born to a Bohemian-Jewish immigrant father and a mother who was a German Jew. But Bloch was not raised in the Jewish faith and he later adopted a form of Christianity. Bloch quit high school at sixteen to study at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts from 1898 to 1900 with Dawson Dawson-Watkins. Block began his art career as a caricaturist for a satirical newspaper, The Saint Louis Mirror under editor and publisher, William Marion Reedy. While Bloch's political cartoons were done in the standard manner, "his caricatures and cover illustrations were more advanced stylistically, displaying the bold simplifications and flowing lines of international Art Nouveau." Reedy became a... Read full biography
Born in St. Louis, Missouri on August 2, 1882, Albert Bloch was born to a Bohemian-Jewish immigrant father and a mother who was a German Jew. But Bloch was not raised in the Jewish faith and he later adopted a form of Christianity. Bloch quit high school at sixteen to study at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts from 1898 to 1900 with Dawson Dawson-Watkins. Block began his art career as a caricaturist for a satirical newspaper, The Saint Louis Mirror under editor and publisher, William Marion Reedy. While Bloch's political cartoons were done in the standard manner, "his caricatures and cover illustrations were more advanced stylistically, displaying the bold simplifications and flowing lines of international Art Nouveau." Reedy became a patron of Bloch's and funded a trip to Europe accompanied by his wife and son, to further his artistic training. Throughout the trip he visited Lon... Read full biography
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Keywords (28)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Illustration, Illustrator
Art Media
- •Gouache
- •Ink
- •Oil Paint
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
- •Expressive, Expressionist, Expressionism
- •Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
- •Pure Abstraction, Line, Shape, Color, Texture
- •Surrealism, Surrealist
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Gardens, Garden Scenes
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
- •Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Texas Before 1940
Art School
- •St. Louis School of Fine Art, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •Chicago Union League Club
Added Description
- •Animal Specialty
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Genre Specialty
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art