Karl Zerbe[1] (September 16, 1903 – November 24, 1972) was a German-born American painter.
The works of Karl Zerbe are significant because they record "the response of a distinguished artist of basically European sensibility to the physical and cultural scene of the New World".[2]
Biography
Karl Zerbe was born 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, Friedberg. From 1921-1923 he lived in Munich, where he studied painting at the Debschitz School, mainly under Josef Eberz. From 1924-1926 Karl Zerbe worked and traveled in Italy on a fellowship from the City of Munich.[3] 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 to 1955 Karl Zerbe was the head of the Department of Painting, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.[4] 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 painters Jack Levine and Hyman Bloom as a key member of the Boston Expressionist school of painting,[5] and through his teaching influenced a generation of painters,[6][7] including, among others, David Aronson, Bernard Chaet, Reed Kay, Arthur Polonsky, Jack Kramer, Barbara Swan, Andrew Kooistra, and Lois Tarlow.[8]
Solo exhibitions
1922: Gurlitt Gallery, Berlin, Germany
1926: Georg Caspari Gallery, Munich, Germany; Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany; Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany
1934: Germanic Museum (now Busch-Reisinger Museum), Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1934, 1935, 1936, 1937: Marie Sterner Galleries, New York City
1936, 1938, 1939, 1940: Grace Horne Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts
1941: Vose Galleries, Boston; Buchholz Gallery, New York City
1943: Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts
1943, 1946, 1948, 1951, 1952: The Downtown Gallery, New York City
1943, 1947: Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
1945, 1946: Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
1946: Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
1948, 1949: Philadelphia Art Alliance, Pennsylvania
1948, 1955: Boris Mirski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1950: Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York
1951-1952: Retrospective Exhibition circulated by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, traveled to: Baltimore Museum of Art; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire; Florida Gulf Coast Art Center, Clearwater; M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts;
1954: The Allan Gallery, New York City
1958: Florida State University, Tallahassee; Ringling Brothers Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida
1958, 1959, 1960: Nordness Gallery, New York City
1960: New Arts Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1961-1962: Retrospective Exhibition circulated by The American Federation of Arts, Boston University
Work in public collections
Addison Gallery of American Art - Andover, Massachusetts
Albright-Knox Art Gallery - Buffalo, New York
Art Institute of Chicago – Chicago, Illinois
New Britain Museum of American Art - New Britain, Connecticut
Auburn University - Auburn, Alabama
Baltimore Museum of Art – Baltimore, Maryland
Birmingham Museum of Art - Birmingham, Alabama
Brooklyn Museum - New York City, New York
Butler Institute of American Art - Youngstown, Ohio
Saint Louis Art Museum - Saint Louis, Missouri
Colby College Museum of Art - Waterville, Maine
Cranbrook Academy of Art - Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Detroit Institute of Arts – Detroit, MichiganI
Düren Leopold-Hoesch-Museum
Encyclopædia Britannica Collection
Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University - Cambridge, Massachusettss
Amon Carter Museum - Fort Worth, Texas
Busch-Reisinger Museum at Harvard University - Cambridge, Massachusetts
Herron School of Art – Indianapolis, Indiana
Kestner-Museum – Hanover, Germany
LeMoyne Center for the Visual Arts - Tallahassee, Florida
Los Angeles County Museum of Art – Los Angeles, California
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge, Massachusetts
Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York City, New York
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute - Utica, New York
Rhode Island School of Design Museum - Providence, Rhode Island
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Boston, Massachusetts
Museum of Modern Art - New York City, New York
Nationalgaleri, Berlin, Germany (destroyed)
National Institute of Arts and Letters - New York City, New York
Newark Museum - Newark, New Jersey
Oberlin College - Oberlin, Ohio
Philadelphia Museum of Art – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Phillips Collection - Washington, D.C.
Sarah Lawrence College - Westchester County, New York
Smith College Museum of Art - Northampton, Massachusetts
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich, Germany
Staedelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, Germany
University of Iowa - Iowa City, Iowa,
Syracuse University - Syracuse, New York
Tel-Aviv Museum, Israel
Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia - Athens, Georgia
University of Illinois
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, Minnesota
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery - Rochester, New York
Walker Art Center - Minneapolis, Minnesota
Whitney Museum of American Art - New York City, New York
Wichita Art Museum, The Roland P. Murdock Collection - Wichita, Kansas
See also
Art movement
Art periods
Expressionism
References
Notes
Karl Zerbe
Karl Zerbe by H.W. Janson, American Federation of Arts, New York
Elke Lauterbach: Sieben Münchner Maler: Eine Ausstellungsgemeinschaft in der Zeit von 1931-1937 - Inhaltsverzeichnis und Einleitung [1]
Goodhue, Laura (2005). "Creative Expression: An Imminent Clash as Experienced by Three Artists". eScholarship@BC. Boston College. pp. 47–48.
Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America during the Twentieth Century,Karl Zerbe
McQuaid, Cate (27 December 2011). "Boston Expressionists get their due". The Boston Globe. "Another key player was Karl Zerbe...Zerbe taught a generation of artists at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts."
Chaet, Bernard (1980). "The Boston Expressionist School: A Painter's Recollections of the Forties". Archives of American Art Journal. The Smithsonian Institution. 20 (1): 29. JSTOR 1557495. "In 1963, James Johnson Sweeney, speaking on 'Art Education in the United States,' cited two great European-born artists as the most important influences on American painting of the preceding twenty-five years—Hans Hofmann and Karl Zerbe."
Bookbinder, Judith (2005). Boston Modern: Figurative Expressionism as Alternative Modernism. Durham, NH: University of New Hampshire Press. p. 5. ISBN 9781584654889.
Bibliography
Smithsonian Institution Research Information System; Archival, Manuscript and Photographic Collections, Karl Zerbe
Books
Ulrich Thieme; Felix Becker, ed., Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler, V 36, Leipzig, 1947, p. 463.
Frederick S. Wight, Milestones of American Painting in our century, (New York : Chanticleer Press [for the] Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1949.) OCLC 154058045 p. 25, 124, 125.
Sheldon Cheney, The story of modern art (New York, Viking Press, 1958.) OCLC 685440
Alan D. Gruskin, Painting in the U.S.A. (Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Co., 1946.) OCLC 1220327 p. 85.
Philips Collection, The Phillips Collection : a museum of modern art and its sources : catalogue : Washington (New York : Thames and Hudson, 1952.) OCLC 18027945 p. 139, 230.
Lee Nordness ed., text by Allen Stuart Weller, Art: USA: now (New York, Viking Press, 1963.) OCLC 265650 p. 126-129.
Edgar Preston Richardson, Painting in America, from 1502 to the present (New York, Crowell, 1965.) OCLC 517571 p. 405. 406.
Bram Dijkstra, American expressionism: art and social change, 1920-1950, (New York : H.N. Abrams, in association with the Columbus Museum of Art, 2003.) ISBN 0-8109-4231-3
Judith Bookbinder, Boston modern: figurative expressionism as alternative modernism, (Durham, N.H. : University of New Hampshire Press ; Hanover : University Press of New England, ©2005.) ISBN 1-58465-488-0
Allgemeine Künstler Lexikon Bio-Bibliographische Index, Band 10, page 727
Marika Herskovic, American Abstract and Figurative Expressionism: Style Is Timely Art Is Timeless (New York School Press, 2009.) ISBN 978-0-9677994-2-1. p. 248-251
ART USA NOW Ed. by Lee Nordness;Vol.1, (The Viking Press, Inc., 1963.) pp. 126–129
Elke Lauterbach: Sieben Münchner Maler: Eine Ausstellungsgemeinschaft in der Zeit von 1931–1937. München 1999. (= Schriften aus dem Institut für Kunstgeschichte der Universität München, Bd. 70.)
Günther Graßmann, Malerei und Graphik. Ausstellung zum 85. Geburtstag. Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, Ausstellung und Katalog in Zusammenarbeit mit Professor Günther Graßmann, Dr. Inge Feuchtmayr, Marie Stelzer, Garching 1985.
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