Oscar Florianus Bluemner (German, American, 1867 to 1938)
Oscar Bluemner Bluemner was born near Hanover, Germany, he studied painting and architecture at the Royal Academy of Design in Berlin in the early 1880s. He then traveled to America where he became one of the leading American Modernists and the subject of an important monographic retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, from October 2005 through February 2006.
Information courtesy of Charlton Hall Galleries, June 2007.