Oscar Bluemner Online Exhibition
BIO
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Oscar Florianus Bluemner was born in Prenzlau, Prussia. The son and grandson of builders, he studied design and architecture at Berlin’s Königliche Technische Hochschule. After achieving modest success in Berlin, Bluemner decided to leave Germany in 1892 for America. He later decided to leave architecture for painting after meeting Alfred Stieglitz at the 291 Galleryin New York. While touring Europe for several months in 1912, Bluemner was impressed by the work of fellow artists such as Cezanne and Van Gogh. The following year, he contributed five paintings to the famous International Exhibition of ModernArt (Armory Show) inNewYork. His highly personal and boldly colored landscapes used elements of reality as a starting point, and then he transformed them into abstracted ideas. With this first important exhibition, Oscar Bluemner was to become part of a group of artists, including Georgia O’Keeffe, Arthur Dove, John Marin, and Marsden Hartley, among others, all of whom helped bring modernist art to life in America.
2015
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Hand Art Center, Stetson University, DeLand, FL
2013 Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Hand Art Center, Stetson University, DeLand, FL
2010
The Hoyt Institute, New Castle, PA
2006
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2005
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Hollis Taggart Gallery, New York, NY
2002
Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC Forum Gallery, New York, NY
1937
Arts Club Gallery, Chicago, IL Philips Collections, Washington DC Neumann’s New Art Circle and Print Room, New York, NY Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Municipal Art Gallery, New York, NY University Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Marie Harriman Gallery, New York The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA RCA Building, Rockefeller Center, New York, NY Public Works Art Project, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1936
1935
1934
1933
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1932
Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Neumann’s New Art Circle and Print Room, New York, NY Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1931
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