| Josef Presser | |
| Birth Place: | Lublin, Poland |
| Death Place: | Paris, France |
| Nationality: | American (b. Poland) |
| Education: | School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
| Field: | Painting |
| Spouse: | Agnes Hart |
Josef Presser (1907–1967) was an American artist.
Presser was born in 1907 in Lublin, Poland.[1] He emigrated to the United States at the age of 12 and studied at the Boston School of the Museum of Fine Arts.[2] [3] During the 1930s, Presser painted murals as part of the Works Progress Administration program. He settled in New York City where he worked as a painter and teacher. He married fellow artist Agnes Hart (1912-1979) in 1941. The couple had studio space in Woodstock, New York.[4] [5] He was associated with the New York print studio Atelier 17.[6] Presser died in Paris in 1967.[1]
Presser's work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[7] the National Gallery of Art,[8] the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[1] and the Whitney Museum of American Art,[9] His papers are in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.[5]
Josef Presser 1909-1967, Raymond E. Tubbs, Frank Balters, Verlag Inter Art Gallerie Reich, Cologne, 1996