Word: bluemner
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...matter how gay the canvases, they paled beside the personality of the painter. Still unknown to the general public, Oscar Florianus Bluemner has been a pet of the U. S. art world for 25 years. His friends jammed the gallery last week. Fellow artists, retired critics, dealers, fell over each other in their eagerness to tell newshawks about his cat Jochen, his accent, his cigars, his career as portraitist, architect, bartender, philosopher...
Oscar Florianus Bluemner comes from Hanover, Germany. His father was an architect who had built up a nice practice in Italianate brick churches in the south Tyrol. At the age of 18 Oscar Bluemner gave his first portrait exhibition in Berlin, shortly afterward won medals at the Royal Academy where he was studying painting and architecture. In 1892 an artistic argument with the All Highest, Wilhelm II, caused him to leave Germany suddenly for the U. S. For two years he lived in Bowery flophouses, working as a bartender when he could, selling packets of needles on the sidewalk...
...from his only interest. Blue eyes flashing, waving the smouldering butt of a frayed cigar, Oscar Florianus Bluemner last week delivered himself of his mature opinion of nudism with rich guttural gusto...
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