Biografie von Joseph FLOCH (1894/95-1977)

Birth place: Vienna, Austria

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Painter, writer

Studied: State Acad. Fine Arts, Vienna (M.A.).

Exhibited: Paris Salon, 1937 (medal); PAFA, 1944 (Lippincott prize), 1948-53, 1958-66; WMAA, 1945, 1947; Washington County MFA, 1945; TMA, 1942; CGA, 1945-57; AIC, 1943; CI, 1943-45; int. shows in Bordeaux, 1927, Paris, 1937; New York World's Fair, 1939, 1966; M. H. De Young Mus., San Francisco, 1964 (retrospective); Assoc. Am. Artists; Belvedere Mus., Vienna, 1972 (retrospective); Forum Gal., NYC, 1970s. Other awards: Brevoort-Eickmeyer Prize, Columbia Univ., 1955; Chevalier, Fraternal Order of Arts & Letters, 1962.

Member: NAD (council member, 1961-70s); Salon Automne, Paris; Fed. Modern P&S

Work: MMA; WMAA ; MoMA Paris; Belvedere Mus., Vienna; Albertina Mus., Vienna. Commissions: murals for Colm of Brive, France, commissioned by French Government, 1940.

Comments: Preferred media: oils. Teaching: painting instructor, New School Social Res., 1964-67.

Sources: WW73; WW47; M. Gautier, Joseph Floch (Ed. Gemaux, Paris, 1952); Held, et al., Joseph Floch (A. S. Barnes & Co., 1967); H. Aurenhammer, Joseph Floch, catalog (Ed. Austrian Galery, 1972); Falk, Exh. Record Series.