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Elmer Bischoff
1916–1991

Introduction

Elmer Nelson Bischoff (July 9, 1916 – March 2, 1991) was a visual artist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bischoff, along with Richard Diebenkorn and David Park, was part of the post-World War II generation of artists who started as abstract painters and found their way back to figurative art.

Wikidata identifier

Q3051555

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Introduction

Post WWII San Francisco Bay area painter whose work evolved from complete abstraction in the 1940s to figurative works. He taught at the California College of Art (now the San Francisco Art Institute) in the late 1940s alongside Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, and Ad Reinhardt. In the early 1950s, along with the painters Richard Diebenkorn and David Park, he broke with pure abstraction and began to worked in the style later known as Bay Area figurative painting.

Country of birth

United States

Roles

Artist, painter

ULAN identifier

500000068

Names

Elmer Bischoff, Elmer Nelson Bischoff

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