Elmer Bischoff (1916-1991)

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I propose to return to the School of San Francisco Bay - the first hudozheestvennomu flow in the United States, who had escaped the domination of New York. Here is what the researcher Bill Berkson's this line: "In the triad of the founders of the artists the San Francisco school, David Park was a classicist, Richard Dibenkorn - a modernist, and Elmer Bischoff - romantic.

Classicist, David Park, we, with your permission, let us a little later, and now that's what we have to say about Elmer Bischoff.

Bischoff's post-war generation of American artists who have contributed to the 1940-s. Development in the West, U.S. abstract expressionism, but in the 1950's. turned to figurative painting. His painting, in my opinion, shows the enormous influence that Edward Hopper had on all the post-war American figurative art. But in his very American subjects invisibly present and the German Expressionists, and Bonnard, whom I have already briefly mentioned in the story of Dibenkorne.

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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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In 1930-40 gg. Bischoff developed in his work the idea of synthetic cubism and surrealism.

In 1947 at the Palace of the Legion of Honor San Francisco, he had his first personal exhibition.
In 1952, Bischoff in protest against the dismissal of Clifford Still left the High School of the Arts in California and moved to Marysville, where he taught at a local college. It was in these years, he has moved from abstraction to figurative painting (he called this transition "crown a love story"), which he developed in his work over the next twenty years.
In the works of this period Bischoff "action painting", a relic of abstraction, connected with the use of emotional and psychological capabilities and subject matter of painting.

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In 1957 g.raboty Bischoff was shown at the Museum of Fine Arts in Auckland (now the Oakland Museum of California) at an exhibition of figurative painting artists of the San Francisco Bay.
In 1959, a New York dealer George Staempfli successfully showed his work in New York.


In 1960, on the occasion of displaying the School of San Francisco Bay in New York (Gallery Staempfli), an influential critic Fairfield Porter, Bischoff called "the most remarkable of all known him in California artists who have left the abstraction and turning to figurativu.

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Painting Bischoff biased, emotionally rich, expressive - a gesture of the artist is very important, active role played by aggressive color. The artist himself said that the most important for him is the "general prochuvstvovannost, combining elements of painting into a whole"
In the 1960's. Bischoff traveled extensively in Europe, where he discovered such artists as Kandinsky and Klee. Under their influence in the early 1970's. Creativity Bischoff changed: he changed his technique - he began to write acrylic - and returned to abstraction (Bischoff himself defined it return to abstract art like this: "I left the church and went to the gym"). The works of this period is characterized by its refined palette and great lyricism in the use of architectural and organic forms.

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Unfortunately, the size of work Bischoff never shown - even in museum collections, as it may seem. By sozhaleneiyu, because the dimensions are of great importance. But I can say that it is mainly large works, under 2 meters on the large side. Dates are listed, as always, in the caption below the images.