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Karl Schrag

Karl Schrag (1912 - 1995) was active/lived in New York, Maine.  Karl Schrag is known for Modernist-leaning landscape-figure-genre, engraver.

Karl Schrag (from artist supplied vita, circa 1970)

FROM ARTIST SUPPLIED VITAE:  
1912 in Karlsruhe, Germany.  His father was German and his mother American.  Graduated from Humanistisches Gymnasium in 1930, and immediately began to study art, first in Geneva (his family moved to Zurich in 1931) and then in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, at the Atelier of Lucien Simon with Roger Bissiere at the Academie Ranson, and at Lan Grande Chaumiere.

In 1938 he came to the U.S., studied at the Art Students League with Sternberg, and at Atelier 17 with Stanley William Hayter.  He was director of Atelier 17 in 1950, taught graphic arts at Brooklyn College in 1953-1954, since 1954 at Cooper Union.

Schrag is an American citizen and lives and works in New York and in Maine.


SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Galeries Arensberg, Brussels 1938; Smithsonian Institution 1945; University of Alabama 1949; Philadelphia Art Alliance 1953; University of M   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3320 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Karl Schrag


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Illustration, Illustrator
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art MediaArt Style
  • Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
Art Subject
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
  • Portraits, Portraiture
Art Association
  • Art Students League, New York
  • Society of Independent Artists-
Art Teacher
  • Harry Sternberg
  • Stanley William Hayter
Art School
  • Academie Ranson, Student
  • Art Students League of New York, Student
  • Atelier 17, Stanley Hayter Workshop, Student
  • Cooper Union Art School, Cooper School of Design, Student
  • Cooper Union Art School, Cooper School of Design, Teacher
  • Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, Student
  • Stanley Hayter's Atelier 17 Workshop-Teacher
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Figure Specialty
  • Genre Specialty
  • Landscape Specialty
  • Printmaking Specialty
Ethnicity of Artist
  • German
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
  • Kraushaar Galleries, New York
Exhibition of Art Association
  • Society of Independent Artists--
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Brooklyn Museum of Art
  • Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
  • Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Smithsonian Institution/Museums
  • Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art

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