Oscar Florianus Bluemner
Born: June 21, 1867, Prenzlau, Germany
Died: January 12, 1938, Braintree, Massachusetts, United States
National Gallery of Art
Born in Germany, modernist Oscar Bluemner trained there as an architect. He also painted and won awards for his depictions of architectural subjects. In 1913 the artist exhibited his work at the revolutionary Armory Show in New York. He had his first solo exhibition in 1915 at Alfred Stieglitz' 291 Gallery, which featured the most advanced American and European art of the time. Over the years Bluemner’s work took on increasingly romantic overtones, but he never relinquished his earlier cubist vocabulary.
Bluemner used bold, penetrating colors in his paintings; some called him "the vermillionaire" because of his preference for vivid red. Bluemner's bold, simplified forms and unusual approach to color give his landscape paintings the appearance of brooding fantasies.
Bluemner rendered this Bronx street in brightly colored crayon in 1913, and described it as “a very clear brilliant day.” He worked rapidly, delineating the rail, sidewalk, and the street in a few, quick, bold strokes. What colors jump out at you first? Have you ever been to the Bronx? Does this work of art remind you of the Bronx today? If you were to draw your street, what colors would you use? #Streets#ArtAtoZ
Oscar F. Bluemner, "Street in the Bronx," 1913, crayon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Davis Hatch Collection, 1984.7.18
Bluemner rendered this Bronx street in brightly colored crayon in 1913, and described it as “a very clear brilliant day.” He worked rapidly, delineating the rail, sidewalk, and the street in a few, quick, bold strokes. What colors jump out at you first? Have you ever been to the Bronx? Does this work of art remind you of the Bronx today? If you were to draw your street, what colors would you use? #Streets#ArtAtoZ
Oscar F. Bluemner, "Street in the Bronx," 1913, crayon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Davis Hatch Collection, 1984.7.18
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