Joseph Floch
The Art Agency Weinpolter purchases quality paintings by Joseph Floch. Detailed information about the artist:
Joseph Floch (Vienna 1895 - New York 1977)
From 1913 to 1919 Joseph Floch studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. Among others, Franz Rumpler was his teacher. He served in the war in 1916 and 1917.
From 1922 until 1938 he was a member of the "Hagenbund" and went on several trips to Munich, the south of France and Spain. In 1926 he moved to Paris where he found a patron in the art dealer Berthe Weill. Floch exhibited in the "Salon des Tuileries" and the "Salon d'Automne".
In 1941 he emigrated to New York and became an American citizen in 1951. In 1962 Joseph Floch joined the New School of Research. During his life time he participated in numerous exhibitions and received several prizes and tributes. The painter focused on landscape and figure painting. He mainly concentrated on monumental compositions depicting people, often nudes, in simple positions. An impression of timelessness, calmness and harmony is created by subdued colours.
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