藝術家奥斯卡·布鲁姆纳 (1867-1938) 生平簡歷

出生地： Germany

死亡地点： (suicide)

地址： NYC, 1901-26; South Braintree, MA, 1926-38

职业： Painter

教育： Academy of FA, Berlin.

展出： Royal Acad., Berlin, 1892 (med.); Gurlitt Gals., Berlin, 1912 (solo); Armory Show, NYC, 1913; 291" Gal., NYC; 1915 (solo); Forum Exh. of Mod. Am. Painters, 1916 (one of 16 featured); Bourgeois Gallery, NYC, 1917-23; The Intimate Gal., NYC, 1928 (solo); WMAA,1932; Salons of Am.; Univ. Gal., Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1939 (retrospective)"

工作： WMAA; PMA; MMA; Fogg A. Mus., Harvard Univ; Univ. Gal., Univ. of MN, Minneapolis

评论： An early modernist painter, he was trained as an architect in Berlin. A disagreement over art with Emperor William II led to his emigration to America (Chicago) in 1892. After moving to NYC in 1901, he won the commission for the Bronx, NY, County Courthouse, but his partner stole the job away from him, building the courthouse using Bluemner's design. After a long court battle, Bluemner won the lawsuit in 1912, but by then had turned more fully to painting. He went to Europe that same year, traveling to Berlin, Paris, Southern France, and Italy, and adopting the emotional language of expressionism, displaying a liking for harsh reds and greens, bold outlines, and compressed space. Returning to the U.S. the following year, he showed five landscapes in the Armory Show. For a time he belonged to the group of painters around A. Stieglitz, who sponsored his first American solo exh. in 1915 and another one in 1928. Bluemner's work did not sell well, however, and in 1938, poor health and a continuous battle against poverty led to his suicide. Author: Audiator et Altera Pars: Some Plain Sense of the Modern Art Movement," Camera Work (June 1913).

来源： WW38; Jeffrey R. Hayes, Oscar Bluemner (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1991); 300 Years of American Art, 606; Baigell, Dictionary; Falk, Exhibition Record Series; W. Homer, Avant-Garde Painting and Sculpture in America, 34"