Oscar Florianus Bluemner

Oscar Florianus Bluemner, actually Oscar Franz Julius Blümner, ( born June 21, 1867 in Prenzlau, † January 12, 1938 in South Braintree, Massachusetts ) was a German -American painter of modern times.

Bluemner attended high school in Hildesheim, then in Krefeld before the Abitur at the Gymnasium in Elberfeld took off at Easter in 1886 to study civil engineering. In fact, he received his first award in 1892 for an architectural paintings, the same year he emigrated to New York City. He got there a job in an architect's office and seven years later, the U.S. citizenship. In 1910 he made ​​the acquaintance of Alfred Stieglitz, a photographer, and connoisseur and art dealer of American modernism.

In 1912 he returned as part of a trip to Europe. His journey stations were Paris, Italy, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and London. In addition, he had an exhibition at the Galerie Gurlitt in Berlin. A year later, he participated in the Armory Show in New York, a major for both the European and the American Modern exhibition. 1915 was followed by an exhibition at Stieglitz's gallery 291 in New York. A year later he was also in New York participants in The Forum Exhibition of Modern American Painters, a group exhibition of the Anderson Gallery.

Bluemner moved there in 1916 from New York to New Jersey. Many motifs from New Jersey can be found later in his works again. From 1917 to 1923 he suggested to the study of Asian art and design in a new direction, he also developed theories of color.

This was followed by increased exhibitions: First 1924 JB Neumann's New Art Circle in New York and 1926 in Aline Meyer Liebman 's Art Room in Handiwork Center. Then he moved to South Braintree, Massachusetts.

For exhibitions Bluemner but always came back to New York. From 1928/29, he exhibited in Stieglitz's Intimate Gallery, and the Whitney Studio Gallery. In 1932, to attend the first Biennial at the Whitney in New York. In the meantime he developed in 1930 the " casein varnish medium ".

Between 1935 and 1937 he exhibited several times, even outside of New York. He was involved in the Marie Harriman Gallery in New York, the Arts Club Gallery in Chicago, the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, for a second time at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts.

Creation

Oscar Bluemner is a representative of modernity, many of his works depict abstracted landscapes or buildings, with particularly intense color is striking. His paintings could almost be described as precursors of Pop Art. This style of painting was very unusual at that time in the U.S., so it was mostly ridiculed and it proved unsuccessful in his lifetime. Meanwhile achieve his works at auctions but considerable prices.

As of February 12 2006 he the New York Whitney Museum dedicated an exhibition.