German Expressionist Painting of a Clown by Samuel Brecher

Samuel Brecher was born in Boryslaw, Austria, a town near the Carpathian Mountains, now a part of Poland. His family came to New York in 1910, where Samuel graduated from Cooper Union in 1921. He studied art at the National Academy of Design from 1921–24 and continued studies under Charles W. Hawthorne in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Brecher was represented by several well known New York City galleries in the 1940s and 1950s, including the Kraushaar Galleries, the ACA Galleries, the Hudson Walker Gallery and the Merrill Gallery. During his career, he won over 40 prestigious prizes and awards and had numerous one-man shows. Brecher's works are included in many important private collections as well as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Walker Art Museum, the Smithsonian and the Newark Museum of Art. He is listed in Who's Who in American Art and is a member of the Salmagundi Club and the National Academy of Art.