Kurt Roesch Explained

Kurt Roesch
Birth Date:	December 12, 1905
Birth Place:	Berlin, Germany
Death Place:	Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.
Nationality:	American
Field:	Painting

Kurt Ferdinand Roesch (1905–1984) was a German born American painter.

Biography

Roesch was born on December 12, 1905^[1] in Berlin and studied painting with the expressionist Karl Hofer. Roesch immigrated to the United States in 1933, living first in Katonah, New York, and then in New Canaan, Connecticut. He taught at Sarah Lawrence College from 1934 to 1972, and died October 8, 1984, at his home in New Canaan.^[2]

Man with Bird from 1977, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, demonstrates his semiabstract images that often reference animals or plants. The Butler Institute of American Art (Youngstown, Ohio), the Columbus Museum of Art (Columbus, Ohio), the Frederick R Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis, Minnesota), the Honolulu Museum of Art,^[3] the Metropolitan Museum of Art,^[4] the Museum of Modern Art (New York City),^[5] and the Sheldon Museum of Art (Lincoln, Nebraska) are among the public collections holding works by Roesch.^{[2] [6]}

References

• Falk, Peter Hastings; Who Was Who in American Art; Artists Active 1898-1947, 1985
• Barr, Alfred; Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art, 1977
• Jaques Cattell Press; Who's Who in American Art, 12th Edition, 1976
• Buffalo Fine Arts Academy; American Art in Upstate New York; Drawings, Watercolors and Small Sculptures, 1974
• Janis, Sidney; Abstract-Surrealist Art in America, 1969
• Pousette-Dart, Nathaniel; American Painting Today, 1956
• Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge; Index of Artists International Biographical (2 Vols), 1948

Notes and References

1. Web site: Roesch, Kurt Albert . Benezit Dictionary of Artists . Oxford University Press . 22 April 2020 . en . 10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00154593 .
2. Web site: Service at Sarah LawrenceFor the Artist Kurt Roesch . The New York Times . 22 April 2020 . 3 December 1984.
3. Honolulu Museum of Art wall label, Man with Bird, accession 4639.1
4. Web site: Midtown Manhattan . Metropolitan Museum of Art . 22 April 2020.
5. Web site: Kurt Roesch . The Museum of Modern Art . 22 April 2020 . en.
6. Web site: Kurt Roesch in AskArt . 2015-10-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074708/http://www.askart.com/artist/Kurt%20Ferdinand%20Roesch/100852/Kurt%20Ferdinand%20Roesch.aspx?sthp= . 2016-03-04 . live .