Karl Zerbe

Karl Zerbe[1] (September 16, 1903 – November 24, 1972) was a German-born American painter.

Karl Zerbe
Born(1903-09-16)September 16, 1903
Berlin, Germany
DiedNovember 24, 1972(1972-11-24) (aged 69)
Tallahassee, Florida, United States
NationalityAmerican
Known forExpressionist painter
MovementExpressionism

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
Zerbe's painting Beacon Hill, held by the Detroit Institute of Arts

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.[3] 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 "Degenerate art." From 1937 to 1955 Karl Zerbe was the head of the Department of Painting, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.[4] In 1939 Karl Zerbe became a U.S. citizen and the same year for the first time he used encaustic. He joined the faculty in the Department of Art and Art History at Florida State University in 1955, where he taught until his death.

He was grouped together with the Boston painters Jack Levine and Hyman Bloom as a key member of the Boston Expressionist school of painting,[5] and through his teaching influenced a generation of painters,[6][7] including, among others, David Aronson, Bernard Chaet, Reed Kay, Arthur Polonsky, Jack Kramer, Barbara Swan, Andrew Kooistra, and Lois Tarlow.[8]

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

See also

References
Notes
  1. "Karl Zerbe,". April 25, 1961 – via Open WorldCat.
  2. "Karl Zerbe,". April 25, 1961 – via Open WorldCat.
  3. Elke Lauterbach: Sieben Münchner Maler: Eine Ausstellungsgemeinschaft in der Zeit von 1931-1937 - Inhaltsverzeichnis und Einleitung Archived 2014-01-02 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Goodhue, Laura (2005). "Creative Expression: An Imminent Clash as Experienced by Three Artists". eScholarship@BC. Boston College. pp. 47–48. Archived from the original on 2015-04-10. Retrieved 2015-04-10.
  5. "Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America during the Twentieth Century, Karl Zerbe". Archived from the original on 2015-04-29. Retrieved 2006-12-06.
  6. McQuaid, Cate (27 December 2011). "Boston Expressionists get their due". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on 31 July 2017. Retrieved 21 June 2017. Another key player was Karl Zerbe...Zerbe taught a generation of artists at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.
  7. Chaet, Bernard (1980). "The Boston Expressionist School: A Painter's Recollections of the Forties". Archives of American Art Journal. The Smithsonian Institution. 20 (1): 29. doi:10.1086/aaa.20.1.1557495. JSTOR 1557495. In 1963, James Johnson Sweeney, speaking on 'Art Education in the United States,' cited two great European-born artists as the most important influences on American painting of the preceding twenty-five years—Hans Hofmann and Karl Zerbe.
  8. Bookbinder, Judith (2005). Boston Modern: Figurative Expressionism as Alternative Modernism. Durham, NH: University of New Hampshire Press. p. 5. ISBN 9781584654889. Archived from the original on 2016-05-15. Retrieved 2015-04-23.
  9. "Currier Collections Online - Object Thumbnails". collections.currier.org.
  10. "You are being redirected..." www.dia.org.
  11. "Harvard Art Museums". www.harvardartmuseums.org.
  12. "Karl Zerbe | Kemper Art Museum". www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu.
  13. "Disorder". collections.mfa.org.
  14. "Karl Zerbe | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art.
  15. "Artist Info". www.nga.gov.
  16. "Karl Zerbe". walkerart.org.
  17. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/488270
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