Bluemner the Architect
Sometimes I’ll read an article about an artist in our collection and feel a little twinge of guilt that I didn’t know more about their life. Case in point: I was catching up on my art blogs over the weekend when I saw this post on ArtsJournal’s CultureGrrl blog about Oscar Bluemner, a 20th century painter who also designed a courthouse in the Bronx. I was in the Bronx just a while ago and had no idea that I was so close to the building described as Bluemner’s “meisterwerk.”
We have one of Bluemner’s “vibrant Expressionist landscapes” right here at the Carter. Like most of his landscapes it features architectural elements, which take on far more significance after reading about his troubled life and career.
Oscar Bluemner, Blue Day, 1930