Father Elmer Bischoff was an immigrant from Germany who settled in California and became quite well-known architectural designer.
In 1934, Bischoff entered the University of California. Immediately after his graduation in 1939 he began teaching at the Higher School of Sacramento. This teaching career interrupted by the war: in 1941, Bischoff was mobilized and sent to England, where he remained until 1945, returning to San Francisco, Bischoff soon joined the group of avant-garde artists, which included, among others, Mark Rothko , Hessel Smith, Clifford Still.
In 1946 he pridstavilas opportunity to become a teacher of the California Graduate School of Arts, which already worked some of the most talented artists of postwar America. It was there that he met with David Park and Richard Dibenkornom (he played trumpet in a jazz okrestre school; Park was the pianist of the same orchestra).
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