Biografie von Bruno ALBERTS (1888-1970)

Birth place: Louisville, KY

Profession: Landscape painter, portraitist

Studied: Cincinnati Art Acad.

Exhibited: Louisville First Nat. Bank, c.1964; Mandarin Community Club (mem. exhib.)

Work: Univ. Kentucky Art Mus.

Comments: Work reflects modes of Tonalism and Impressionism. Abandoned painting in the mid-1930s to care for his family but began again upon retirement as a portraitist, landscape and flower painter. Brother of John B. Alberts (see entry).

Sources: Jones and Weber, The Kentucky Painter from the Frontier Era to the Great War, 38 (w/repro.)