Elmer Bischoff
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Born | California, United States | July 8, 1916
Died | March 2, 1991 | (aged 74)
Nationality | American |
Education | University of California |
Known for | Painting |
Movement | Bay Area Figurative Movement |
Spouse | Adelie Landis Bischoff |
Elmer Nelson Bischoff (July 9, 1916 – March 2, 1991),[1] was an American visual artist, from the San Francisco Bay Area.[2] Bischoff, along with Richard Diebenkorn and David Park, was part of the post-World War II generation of artists who started as abstract painters and found their way back to figurative art.
Biography
Elmer Bischoff, second child of John and Elna (née Nelson) Bischoff,[1] and grew up in Berkeley, California. He was the second-generation Californian, a son of a father of German descent, and a mother of mixed Swedish-Ecuadoran origin.
He entered the University of California, Berkeley, in September 1934, completing his master's degree in May 1939, and immediately started teaching art at Sacramento High School (1939–41). During his years at university, one teacher had influenced him most: the highly independent-minded Margaret Peterson (artist), whose total dedication to her teaching, and insistence on the ethical value of art, were to have a great impact on the artist Elmer Bischoff would be. World War II, however, was to change Bischoff's life. In 1941, he served as a lieutenant colonel in intelligence services of the United States Army Air Forces in England, stationing near Oxford, and only coming back to the US in November 1945.
After the war, back in San Francisco, Bischoff found himself once more in the midst of
While distinct from
A retrospective of Elmer Bischoff's work, Grand Lyricist: The Art of Elmer Bischoff, was offered by the Oakland Museum of California, November 3, 2001- January 13, 2002. The Crocker Art Museum (California), the de Young Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington D.C.), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (Kansas City, Missouri), the Museum of the National Academy of Design (New York City), the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Texas), the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, the Orange County Museum of Art, The Phillips Collection (Washington D.C.), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington D.C.) are among the public collections holding works by Elmer Bischoff.
Bischoff was the father of composer John Bischoff.
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-520-06842-1– via Google Books.
- ^ Perrone, Jeff (1975-06-01). "Elmer Bischoff". Artforum. Retrieved 2024-04-02.
External links
Reference books
- Elmer Bischoff: the Ethics of Paint (monography), Susan Landauer, 2001, Oakland Museum of California-University of California Press.
- Marika Herskovic, American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s An Illustrated Survey, Archived 2007-09-29 at the ISBN 0-9677994-1-4. p. 38-41
- Marika Herskovic, American Abstract and Figurative Expressionism: Style Is Timely Art Is Timeless (New York School Press, 2009.) ISBN 978-0-9677994-2-1. p. 44-47