Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University
Marquette University
13th & Clybourn Streets, Box 1881
Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881
13th & Clybourn Streets, Box 1881
Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881
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1914 Milwaukee, Wisconsin - 1976. Known for: Figure, genre, still life, and surreal painting.
A part of the Wisconsin Surrealists in the 1930s and 1940s, Karl Priebe has created work that has been diverse and not easy to categorize. His paintings, many with successive washes of casein,... Read full biography
A part of the Wisconsin Surrealists in the 1930s and 1940s, Karl Priebe has created work that has been diverse and not easy to categorize. His paintings, many with successive washes of casein, include birds in landscape and eerie-looking figures in interiors and in landscapes with odd... Read full biography
A part of the Wisconsin Surrealists in the 1930s and 1940s, Karl Priebe has created work that has been diverse and not easy to categorize. His paintings, many with successive washes of casein, include birds in landscape and eerie-looking figures in interiors and in landscapes with odd juxtapositions. He studied painting at the Layton Art School in Milwaukee and the Art Institute of Chicago, and during the 1940s, exhibited his paintings at the Perls Gallery in New York City. He enjoyed... Read full biography
A part of the Wisconsin Surrealists in the 1930s and 1940s, Karl Priebe has created work that has been diverse and not easy to categorize. His paintings, many with successive washes of casein, include birds in landscape and eerie-looking figures in interiors and in landscapes with odd juxtapositions. He studied painting at the Layton Art School in Milwaukee and the Art Institute of Chicago, and during the 1940s, exhibited his paintings at the Perls Gallery in New York City. He enjoyed popularity and was featured in Life magazine in 1947. From 1938 to 1942, he was an assistant in ethnology at the Milwaukee Public Museum, and from 1944 was an instructor in painting at the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee. An associate was Marshall Glasier,... Read full biography
A part of the Wisconsin Surrealists in the 1930s and 1940s, Karl Priebe has created work that has been diverse and not easy to categorize. His paintings, many with successive washes of casein, include birds in landscape and eerie-looking figures in interiors and in landscapes with odd juxtapositions. He studied painting at the Layton Art School in Milwaukee and the Art Institute of Chicago, and during the 1940s, exhibited his paintings at the Perls Gallery in New York City. He enjoyed popularity and was featured in Life magazine in 1947. From 1938 to 1942, he was an assistant in ethnology at the Milwaukee Public Museum, and from 1944 was an instructor in painting at the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee. An associate was Marshall Glasier, who led the rebellion against what he regarded as provincial painting, exemplified by John Steuart Curry, Region... Read full biography
Karl Priebe - Artist Info
About Karl Priebe: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (5)
All MuseumsMadison Museum of Contemporary Art
227 State Street
Madison, WI 53703New Mexico Museum of Art
113 Lincoln Avenue
Santa Fe, NM 87501Sangre De Cristo Arts Center
210 N Santa Fe Avenue
Pueblo, CO 81003Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street
Box 208271
New Haven, CT 06520-8271