Karl Fortress Paintings
American, 1907-1993
Karl Fortress was a painter, printmaker and teacher. He was born in Antwerp, Belgium on October 13, 1907, and became an American citizen in 1923. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Art Students League of New York, and the Woodstock School of Art with Yasuo Kuniyoshi. Fortress taught at the Art Students League of New York, Brooklyn Museum Art School, Louisiana State University, Fort Wright College and Boston University College of Fine Arts. Karl Eugene Fortess died in Woodstock, New York on July 8, 1993.
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Modernist Landscape with a Hop Scotch Board
By Karl Fortress
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A modernist oil painting by New York modernist Karl Fortress (1907-1993). The painting has provenance from the Cornell Art Museum. In excellent original condition. Signed lower le...
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Untitled (Collapsed Shacks)
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Untitled (Collapsed Shacks), c. 1940s, oil on canvas, signed lower left, 20 ½ x 26 ½ inches, presented in a period frame
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