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Karl Zerbe [1] September 16, 1903 – November 24, 1972) was a German-born American painter.
The works of Karl Zerbe are significant because they record "the response of a distinguished artist of basically European sensibility to the physical and cultural scene of the New World".[2]
Biography
Karl Zerbe was born in Berlin, Germany. The family lived in Paris, France from 1904–1914, where his father was an executive in an electrical supply concern. In 1914 they moved to Frankfurt, Germany where they lived until 1920. Karl Zerbe studied chemistry in 1920 at the Technische Hochschule, Friedberg. From 1921-1923 he lived in Munich, where he studied painting at the Debschitz School, mainly under Josef Eberz. From 1924-1926 Karl Zerbe worked and traveled in Italy on a fellowship from the City of Munich. In 1932 his oil painting titled: ‘’Herbstgarten’’ (autumnal garden), of 1929, was acquired by the National-Galerie, Berlin; in 1937, the painting was destroyed by the Nazis as "degenerative art." From 1937- 1955 Karl Zerbe was the head of the Department of Painting, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In 1939 Karl Zerbe became a U.S. citizen and the same year for the first time he used encaustic. He died in Tallahassee, Florida.
He was grouped together with the Boston painters Kahlil Gibran, Jack Levine, and Hyman Bloom as a member of the Boston Expressionist school of painting.[3]
Solo exhibitions
1922: Gurlitt Gallery, Berlin, Germany
1926: Georg Caspari Gallery, Munich, Germany; Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany; Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany
1934: Germanic Museum (now Busch-Reisinger Museum), Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1934, 1935, 1936, 1937: Marie Sterner Galleries, New York City
1936, 1938, 1939, 1940: Grace Horne Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts
1941: Vose Galleries, Boston; Buchholz Gallery, New York City
1943: Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts
1943, 1946, 1948, 1951, 1952: The Downtown Gallery, New York City
1943, 1947: Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
1945, 1946: Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
1946: Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
1948, 1949: Philadelphia Art Alliance, Pennsylvania
1948, 1955: Boris Mirski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1950: Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York
1951-1952: Retrospective Exhibition circulated by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, traveled to: Baltimore Museum of Art; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire; Florida Gulf Coast Art Center, Clearwater; M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts;
1954: The Allan Gallery, New York City
1958: Florida State University, Tallahassee; Ringling Brothers Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida
1958, 1959, 1960: Nordness Gallery, New York City
1960: New Arts Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1961-1962: Retrospective Exhibition circulated by The American Federation of Arts, Boston University
Work in public collections
Addison Gallery of American Art - Andover, Massachusetts
Albright-Knox Art Gallery - Buffalo, New York
Art Institute of Chicago – Chicago, Illinois
New Britain Museum of American Art - New Britain, Connecticut
Auburn University - Auburn, Alabama
Baltimore Museum of Art – Baltimore, Maryland
Birmingham Museum of Art - Birmingham, Alabama
Brooklyn Museum - New York City, New York
Butler Institute of American Art - Youngstown, Ohio
Saint Louis Art Museum - Saint Louis, Missouri
Colby College Museum of Art - Waterville, Maine
Cranbrook Academy of Art - Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Detroit Institute of Arts – Detroit, MichiganI
Düren Leopold-Hoesch-Museum
Encyclopedia Britannica Collection
Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University - Cambridge, Massachusettss
Amon Carter Museum - Fort Worth, Texas
Busch-Reisinger Museum at Harvard University - Cambridge, Massachusetts
Herron School of Art – Indianapolis, Indiana
Kestner-Museum – Hanover, Germany
LeMoyne Center for the Visual Arts - Tallahassee, Florida
Los Angeles County Museum of Art – Los Angeles, California
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge, Massachusetts
Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York City, New York
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute - Utica, New York
Rhode Island School of Design Museum - Providence, Rhode Island
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Boston, Massachusetts
Museum of Modern Art - New York City, New York
Nationalgaleri, Berlin, Germany (destroyed)
National Institute of Arts and Letters - New York City, New York
Newark Museum - Newark, New Jersey
Oberlin College - Oberlin, Ohio
Philadelphia Museum of Art – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Phillips Collection - Washington, D.C.
Sarah Lawrence College - Westchester County, New York
Smith College Museum of Art - Northampton, Massachusetts
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich, Germany
Staedelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, Germany
University of Iowa - Iowa City, Iowa,
Syracuse University - Syracuse, New York
Tel-Aviv Museum, Israel
Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia - Athens, Georgia
University of Illinois
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, Minnesota
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery - Rochester, New York
Walker Art Center - Minneapolis, Minnesota
Whitney Museum of American Art - New York City, New York
Wichita Art Museum, The Roland P. Murdock Collection - Wichita, Kansas
References
^ Karl Zerbe
^ Karl Zerbe by H.W. Janson, American Federation of Arts, New York
^ Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America during the Twentieth Century,Karl Zerbe
Smithsonian Institution Research Information System; Archival, Manuscript and Photographic Collections, Karl Zerbe
Books
Ulrich Thieme; Felix Becker, ed., Allgemeines lexikon der bildenden Künstler, V 36, Leipzig, 1947, p. 463.
Frederick S. Wight, Milestones of American Painting in our century, (New York : Chanticleer Press [for the] Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1949.) OCLC 154058045 p. 25, 124, 125.
Sheldon Cheney, The story of modern art (New York, Viking Press, 1958.) OCLC 685440
Alan D. Gruskin, Painting in the U.S.A. (Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Co., 1946.) OCLC 1220327 p. 85.
Philips Collection, The Phillips Collection : a museum of modern art and its sources : catalogue : Washington (New York : Thames and Hudson, 1952.) OCLC 18027945 p. 139, 230.
Lee Nordness ed., text by Allen Stuart Weller, Art: USA: now (New York, Viking Press, 1963.) OCLC 265650 p. 126-129.
Edgar Preston Richardson, Painting in America, from 1502 to the present (New York, Crowell, 1965.) OCLC 517571 p. 405. 406.
Bram Dijkstra, American expressionism: art and social change, 1920-1950, (New York : H.N. Abrams, in association with the Columbus Museum of Art, 2003.) ISBN 0810942313
Judith Bookbinder, Boston modern: figurative expressionism as alternative modernism, (Durham, N.H. : University of New Hampshire Press ; Hanover : University Press of New England, ©2005.) ISBN 1584654880
Allgemeine Künstler Lexikon Bio-Bibliographische Index, Band 10, page 727
Marika Herskovic, American Abstract and Figurative Expressionism: Style Is Timely Art Is Timeless (New York School Press, 2009.) ISBN 9780967799421. p. 248-251
ART USA NOW Ed. by Lee Nordness;Vol.1, (The Viking Press, Inc., 1963.) pp. 126–129
External links
Karl Zerbe Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries from artcyclopedia.com
Karl Zerbe paintings from mercurygallery.com
Figureworks.com/20th Century work at www.figureworks.com
Artist from Germany
Artist from USA
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