Josef Block

Joseph Block ( Josef ) ( born November 27, 1863 in Bernstadt, Silesia, † December 20, 1943 in Berlin) was a German painter.

Life

Block was a student of the Wroclaw Academy of Fine Arts, where the lifelong friendship was born with the fellow students Gerhart Hauptmann and the Munich Academy, where he was trained in the studio of Prof. Bruno Piglhein. Block was involved as a landscape painter at the Jerusalem panorama. On February 29, 1892, "Association of Visual Artists of Munich " was founded in his studio at the Theresa Street. From this foundation later, the Munich Secession was formed. In 1895 he married Else Oppenheim, daughter of the banker and Kommerzienrates Hugo Oppenheim and descendant of Moses and Joseph Mendelssohn. The daughter, Anna Louise (1896-1982) was married to Karl Ludwig Duisberg (1889-1958), a son of Carl Duisberg, Heinrich Hauser (1901-1955) and Alfred Winslow Jones ( 1900-1989 ). The sons Hugo (1897-1989) and Otto (1901-1977) worked as a photographer and architect.

By 1896, Joseph Block lived in Munich, where he was also involved in the Munich Secession. After that he worked in Berlin as a painter of biblical histories, realistic genre paintings, portraits and still lifes. He asked, inter alia, at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition and in the salon of Paul Cassirer from. Block was also co-founder of the Berlin Secession. He traveled a lot and was happy and enthusiastic photographer. Because of his Jewish ancestry, he was discriminated against since 1933 and had to sell under pressure from the Nazis painting from his art collection. His apartment in the Derfflingerstr. 16 in Berlin -Tiergarten was confiscated by Generalbauinspektor under Albert Speer.

Some works Josef block

  • Christ and the Samaritan Woman (1887 )
  • The last ray of sunshine (1888 )
  • Bathsheba (1889 )
  • The Prodigal Son (1890 in Munich, in 1891 in Berlin Gold Medal )
  • Twilight ( realistic interior, 1893 medal in Chicago)
  • The new men's ( Munich Secession 1894)
  • Adulteress (1897 )
  • Saul and David (1899 )
  • Pietà ( 1902)
  • Judith (1904-1905)
  • Southern Italian Scene ( 1930 )
  • The Scientist (1942 )
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