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Oscar Bluemner: Suns and Moons.(Critical Essay)(Cover Story)
Oscar Bluemner immigrated from Germany to the United States in 1892 as a twenty-five-year-old graduate of Berlin's prestigious Royal Technical Academy and a winner of its royal medal in architecture. By 1927, when he began his Suns and Moons series, he had switched his profession from architecture to painting and had been a member of Alfred Stieglitz's legendary circle of modernists for more than a decade. His Suns and Moons series marked a watershed moment in his career when he fused the aesthetic vocabulary he had developed up to that point with a new commitment to portraying human relationships. What remained fundamental to his vision was the German romantic philosophy ...
- Oscar Bluemner, in living color.(Biography)
- Magazine article from: Art in America Kalina, Richard January 1, 2006 700+ words
...the first half of the 20th century, Oscar Bluemner would have a good shot at the honor...rank of American artists. (1) "Oscar Bluemner: A Passion for Color," organized...Bluemner's reputation could begin. Oscar Bluemner was born in Prussia in 1867, trained...
- Ruled by Red: The Fiery World of Oscar Bluemner; In a New Corcoran...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Paul Richard January 22, 1989 700+ words
Something close to madness touches Oscar Bluemner's art. His paintings, now on view...handed to him by Eve." If art for Oscar Bluemner was red at the beginning, it was still...cut his throat from ear to ear." "Oscar Bluemner: Landscapes of Sorrow and Joy...
- Oscar Bluemner at Barbara Mathes.(New York, New York)(Reviews of...
- Magazine article from: Art in America Goodman, Jonathan February 1, 1998 700+ words
The German-born American modernist Oscar Bluemner (1867-1938) has never quite received the attention he deserves. This fine show of luminous, compositionally complex oils...
- Stetson University has two major construction projects in the works: a...
- Magazine article from: Florida Trend Sears, Diane July 1, 2007 700+ words
...and a 2009 opening date, and a new Homer and Dolly Hand Art Center that will house a collection of paintings by modernist Oscar Bluemner and visiting exhibits. Also at Stetson, students in the Roland George Investments Program took a top honor for the seventh...
- Painter Bluemner Defeated By History And Styles of Times.(Culture)
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) December 12, 2005 700+ words
...and one of them was Oscar Bluemner (1867-1938), the...of paintings called "Suns and Moons," which...Haskell has organized in Oscar Bluemner: A Passion for Color...his accomplishments. Oscar Bluemner: A Passion for Color...
- Two Men's Art of Facts
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Hank Burchard December 16, 1988 700+ words
...There are strong parallels in both the lives and the work of Oscar Bluemner (1867-1938) and Gerhard Richter, born in 1932. Bluemner...Thereafter his attention shifted to the cosmic, resulting in a "Suns and Moons" series. Toward the end of his life he returned...
- Exquisite Portraits, Fauvist Hues And a Handful of Spiritual Quests.(Culture)
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) September 26, 2005 700+ words
...Dec. 31. The German-born painter Oscar Bluemner (1867-1938) is the least well known...Gallery on Fifth Avenue. With any luck, Oscar Bluemner: A Passion for Color, an exhibition...for Color might hint at an answer. Oscar Bluemner: A Passion for Color will be at the...
- Million-dollar Stetson gift to bring art out of hiding.
- Newspaper article from: Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL) November 14, 2006 700+ words
...may have the most extensive collection of art by painter Oscar Bluemner in existence. But for the better part of a decade, most...is really going to help people understand more about who Oscar Bluemner was." In addition to the Bluemner gallery space, the...
