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ID: 500000068 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500000068			Record Type: Person

Bischoff, Elmer (American painter and draftsman, 1916-1991)

Note: 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.

Names:
	Bischoff, Elmer (preferred,V,index,LC)
	Elmer Bischoff (V,display)
	Elmer Nelson Bischoff (V)
	Bischoff, Elmer Nelson (V,Dutch-P,NA)

Nationalities:
	American (preferred)

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	painter
	draftsman

Gender: male


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: Berkeley (Alameda county, California, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:

colleague of ....	Diebenkorn, Richard
......................	(American painter, 1922-1993) [500025721]

colleague of ....	Park, David
......................	(American painter, 1911-1960) [500028164]

friend of ....	Kasten, Karl
................	(American painter and etcher, born 1916) [500101677]

influenced ....	Gechtoff, Sonia
....................	(American painter, 1926-2018) [500017697]

student of ....	Peterson, Margaret O'Hagan
..................	(American painter and illustrator, 1902-1997) [500053897]

teacher of ....	De Forest, Roy Dean
..................	(American painter and sculptor, 1930-2007) [500027754]

teacher of ....	Jess at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco, ca. 1949
..................	(American painter, collagist, and sculptor, 1923-2004) [500030886]

List/Hierarchical Position:

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Persons, Artists

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Bischoff, Elmer (I)

Biographies:

(American painter and draftsman, 1916-1991) ..... [VP Preferred]
(artist 1916-) ..... [GRL]
(American artist, 1916-) ..... [WCP]
(American painter, b.1916) ..... [BHA]
(American artist, b.1916) ..... [WCI]
(American artist, born 1916) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(artist, 1916-1991) ..... [GRL]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(American artist, 1916-1991) ..... [MoMA]
(American painter, 1916-) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

Bischoff, Elmer ........	[GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, MoMA Preferred, VP Preferred, WCP Preferred]
................................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
................................	Glueck, Elmer Bischoff, New York Times (1991)
................................	GRI Library, author records (1998-)
................................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
................................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 85300162
................................	Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) 85300162

Bischoff, Elmer Nelson ........	[BHA Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP, WCI Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
.............................................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 8602
.............................................	Witt Computer Index database
.............................................	Witt Library, Authority files

Elmer Bischoff ........	[GRISC, MoMA, VP]
..............................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..............................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)

Elmer Nelson Bischoff ........	[VP]
...........................................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules


Note:
English	..........	[VP]
	..........	Glueck, Elmer Bischoff, New York Times (1991) obit.

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