BIOGRAFÍAS DE ARTISTAS PLÁSTICOS ,ESCULTORES Y MUSEOS DEL MUNDO.: ALBERT BLOCH

Albert Bloch (1882-1961), estadounidense. Unido, en Europa, al grupo Jinete Azul (Der Blaue Reiter), encabezado por Kandinsky y Franz Marc, realiza una obra de carácter expresionista con las características generales del grupo. Con un primordial manejo del color, un sentido espiritual impreso en sus obras y cierta intuición, Bloch, logra varias pinturas sugerentes e interesantes.

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Albert Bloch (August 2, 1882 – March 23, 1961) was an American Modernist artist and the only American artist associated with Der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider), a group of early 20th-century European modernists.

He was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He first studied art at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts. In 1901-03 he produced comic strips and cartoons for the St. Louis Star newspaper.[1] Between 1905 and 1908 he worked as a caricaturist and illustrator for William Marion Reedy's literary and political weekly The Mirror. From 1909 to 1921, Bloch lived and worked mainly in Germany.

After the end of World War I, Bloch returned to the United States, teaching at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for a year, and then accepting a Departmental Head position at the University of Kansas until his retirement in 1947.