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Karl Zerbe
Arctic Light - Orange Sun

1958

$6,000
£4,553.91
€5,248.76
CA$8,408.54
A$9,384.66
CHF 4,937.40
MX$113,997.70
NOK 62,593.11
SEK 58,579.31
DKK 39,173.31

About the Item

Arctic Light-Orange Sun Unsigned Gouache on Japanese fibrous paper Series: Tundra Paintings Exhibited: Karl Zerbe, Gouaches of the Artic Nordness Gallery, (Madison Avenue, NY) Feb 3 through Feb 23, 1958 Cat. No. 12 (label with work, see photo) Childs Gallery, Boston, 2017 The Boston Accent: 140 Years of The Museum School Condition: excellent, one tiny void in the image Sheet/image size: 24 x 36 1/4 inches Karl Zerbe was born on September 16, 1903 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 in Friedberg, Germany. From 1921 until 1923 he lived in Munich, where he studied painting at the Debschitz School, mainly under Josef Eberz. From 1924 until 1926 Karl Zerbe worked and traveled in Italy on a fellowship from the City of Munich. 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 until 1955, Karl Zerbe was the head of the Department of Painting, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 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 artists Kahlil Gibran (sculptor), Jack Levine and Hyman Bloom as a key member of the Boston Expressionist school of painting, and through his teaching influenced a generation of painters, including, among others, David Aronson, Bernard Chaet, Reed Kay, Arthur Polonsky, Jack Kramer, Barbara Swan, Andrew Kooistra, and Lois Tarlow. His works are thought significant because they record "the response of a distinguished artist of basically European sensibility to the physical and cultural scene of the New World". Solo exhibitions • 1958, 1959, 1960: Nordness Gallery, New York City Zerbe's work is in various public collections, including: • Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, United States • Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, United States • Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States • New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut, United States • Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States • Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, United States • Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, United States • Brooklyn Museum, New York City, New York, United States • Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, United States • Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, United States • Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, United States • Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, United States • Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, United States • Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, United States • Düren Leopold Hoesch Museum • Fogg Art Museum and the Busch Reisinger Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States • Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, United States • Kestner Museum, Hanover, Germany • LeMoyne Center for the Visual Arts, Tallahassee, Florida • Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, California, United States • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, United States • Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, University of Washington, St. Louis, Missouri, United States • Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama, United States • Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York, United States • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States[ • Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States[ • National Gallery of Art, Washington, United States[ • National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York City, New York, United States • Newark Museum • Philadelphia Museum of Art • Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island, United States • Sarah Lawrence College, Westchester County, New York, United States • Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, United States • Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich, Germany • Staedelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, Germany • Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel • Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia, United States • Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States • Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States[16] • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New York, United States • Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas, United States Courtesy: Wikipedia
  • Creator:
    Karl Zerbe (1903 - 1972, American, German)
  • Creation Year:
    1958
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 36.25 in (92.08 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    Very good, one small circular void in the fibrous paper from its manufacture.
  • Gallery Location:
    Fairlawn, OH
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: FA104151stDibs: LU14014911752

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