California, New York / Hungary, Austria. 1889 - 1966
Easel and mural painting, design, illustration
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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
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Lady at Table (with Painting by Gertrude Abercrombie)
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Lady in Blue with Birds on Head and Shoulder
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For Gertrude with Affection
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Missouri. 1914 - 2005
American Scene painting
Illinois, District Of Columbia / Sweden, Denmark. 1896 - 1979
Geometric abstraction
Connecticut, New York. 1907 - 1994
Surreal genre-landscape-animal
Illinois, District Of Columbia. 1914 - 1985
Harlequin figure portrait paintings, clownsset design, playwright
Illinois. 1924 - 1981
Grotesque figurative images, part of Monster Roster movement
Oklahoma. 1911 - 2004
Abstract genre, landscape, aquatint
California. 1898 - 1992
Futurist compositions, graphics, mural, printmaking
Illinois, Missouri. 1909 - 1996
Figure, street-landscape, genre
New York, Florida. 1886 - 1970
Landscape, marine and urban view painting, teaching
Illinois. 1919 - 1995
Painting
Illinois. 1928 - 2006
Political and racial themed collage, assemblage, geometric abstract painting, teaching
Missouri. 1919 - 2003
Rural genre, landscape
Illinois. 1883 - 1972
Mod naive cityscape, sculpture
Illinois, District Of Columbia. 1927 - 1980
Painter-modern afro-primitive, animal
New York, Massachusetts. 1910 - 1976
Mod figure, surreal genre and non objective painting
Illinois / Poland. 1907 - 2002
Abstract imagery, modernist-leaning landscape, teaching
Illinois, Wisconsin / Germany. 1909 - 1977
Surreal imagery, gloves, grapes, hats, block printing
Illinois. 1915 - 1990
Abstract geometric, mural
New York, Pennsylvania / Italy. 1905 - 1981
Modernist genre, figure, landscape, portrait painting, teaching
Indiana, Ohio. 1912 - 1999
Portrait, landscape, industry and urban scene painting
Wisconsin. 1919 - 2006
Paintings of surreal fanciful images, illustration
Colorado, New York. 1916 - 1993
Abstract landscape and regionalist mural painting
Illinois, Indiana / Haiti. 1884 - 1964
Portrait, mural, genre-Haiti and landscape painting
Illinois, Georgia. 1913 - 1996
Female figure, jazz musicians, portrait and genre painting
Illinois, Michigan, Ohio. 1899 - 1965
Urban scene and landscape painting, prints, teaching
Ohio, Arizona. 1913 - 2003
Genre, figure, landscape, graphic
New York. 1913 - 1992
Mod views-figure-face, non ob, mural
Michigan, New York, New Jersey. 1845 - 1921
Landscape, outdoor genre and portrait painting
Arizona, Illinois. 1885 - 1969
Landscape, Indian genre and figure painting
Illinois, California. 1939 - 2021
Drawing, funk figure-faces, "Hairy Who," imagist, sculpture, drawing
Indiana. 1891 - 1968
Portrait, landscape, floral and genre painting