Albert Bloch: Prints and Drawings

Exhibition

Exhibition Overview

Albert Bloch: Prints and Drawings
Albert Bloch: Prints and Drawings
Stephen Goddard, curator
Gallery 318, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

Albert Bloch (1882–1961) was the sole American artist affiliated with der Blaue Reiter (the Blue Rider), an important group of innovative artists active in Munich, Germany, from 1911 to 1914. Bloch, who traveled to Germany to create drawings and caricatures for the Saint Louis–based weekly Reedy's Mirror, was invited to exhibit with the Blaue Reiter by Vasily Kandinsky. He became well acquainted with Kandinsky and other members of the Blaue Reiter, forming an especially strong friendship with Franz Marc.

Throughout his residence in Germany (1909–1922), Bloch was active in painting, drawing, and printmaking. All thirty-seven of his known prints were made while he was in Germany, and all thirty-seven will be exhibited at the Spencer Museum of Art, thanks to generous loans from the Albert Bloch Foundation.

In 1923, Bloch accepted a position as full professor in the Department of Drawing and Painting at the University of Kansas, where he worked until his retirement in 1947. In addition to the prints already mentioned, this exhibition includes drawings from throughout Bloch’s career, most of them loans from the Albert Bloch Foundation, as well as several of Bloch's paintings owned by the Spencer Museum of Art.

Exhibition images

Works of art

Albert Bloch (1882–1961), Schwabing
circa 1909–1914

Events

February 15, 2014
Activity
10:30–11:30AM
Gallery 318
March 27, 2014
Talk
10:00–11:00AM
318
April 9, 2014
Talk
5:30–6:30PM
Gallery 318