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JOSEF FLOCH* (Vienna 1894 - 1977 New York)

Agaven in Collioure, 1927
oil/canvas 73,6 x 54,5 cm
signed Floch
depicted in Floch catalogue raisonné, p. 157, N. 134, also in Martin Suppa, Joseph Floch, Ölgemälde, Skizzen, Lithografien, Wien 1988, Farbtafel 4,
Exhibited 1988 Vienna, Joseph Floch, Suppan Fine Arts 1993 Vienna, Austian Gallery, Hagenbund-Halbturn


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The Austrian-American painter Josef Floch studied with Rudolf Bacher, Franz Rumpler and Hans Tichy at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts from 1913 to 1918. Study trips led him to Egypt and Palestine and the Netherlands, where he studied Rembrandt and Vermeer's work. From 1922 to 1938 Floch was a member of the Hagenbund and participated in his exhibitions. In 1925/1926 he moved to Paris, Exhibition participations in the Salon d’Automne, in the Salon of the Tuileries and in the Gallery of Berthe Weill (Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani). Floch was close friends with Willy Eisenschitz. In 1941, the family floch emigrated to New York, on board the notorious Navemar. Ernst Lachs (later employees in the Office of Strategic Seevices, OSS, and in the American Foreign Ministry), his wife Minna Lachs (pedagogue and later in the Austrian UNESCO Commission) and son Thomas Lachs (later director of the Austrian National Bank, were also on the ship). In 1944 Floch had an exhibition in the Associate American Artists Gallery and subsequently in numerous museums. 1956 Cross of the French Legion of Honor, 1963 Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres. Floch's beginnings were in expressionism, He was largely influenced by Paul Cézanne and van Gogh, Hans von Marées and the old Dutch. Silence, melancholic figure images, landscapes, interiors and portraits. Collioure (Catalan: Cotlliure) is a French commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department of the Occitanie region. Further artists and styles: Silence, melancholic figure images, landscapes, interiors and portraits, Johann Georg Platzer, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Friedrich von Amerling, Otto Wagner, Eduard Ameseder, Carl O’Lynch of Town, Richard Gerstl, Max Domenig, Robin Christian Andersen, Egon Schiele, Paul Kassecker, Hans Kneslm Heinz Leinfellner, Rudolf Hausner, Joannis Avramidis, Maximilian Melcher, Alfred Hrdlicka, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Arik Brauer, Wolfgang Hollegha, Anton Lehmden, Josef Mikl, Ernst Fuchs, Armin Pramstaller, Cornelius Kolig, Meina Schellander, Franz West, Gottfried Helnwein, Manfred Deix, Heimo Zobernig, Gunter Damisch, Daniel Richter, Monica Bonvicini, dorit Margreiter, Herbert Boeckl, Josef Dobrowsky, Albert Paris Gütersloh, Willy Eisenschitz, Weiterführende Künstler und Begriffe: Friedrich Aduatz, Eduard Ameseder, Robin Christian Andersen, Franz Barwig der Ältere, Leopold Blauensteiner, Hans Bren, Georg Ehrlich, Carl Fahringer, Josef Floch, Beni Ferenczy, Tibor Gergely, Gustav Gurschner, Felix Albrecht Harta, Karl Hauk, Carry Hauser, Wilhelm Hejda, Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel, Rudolf Junk, Maximilian Kahrer, Eduard Kasparides, Wilhelm Kaufmann, Oskar Laske, Heinrich Lefler, Georg Mayer-Marton, Karl Mediz, Georg Merkel, Carl O’Lynch of Town, Ernst Paar, Anton Peschkam Robert Philippi, Michael Powolny, Heribert Potuznik, Lois Pregartbauer, Maximilian reinitz, Heinrich Revy, Albert Reuss, Otto Rudolf Schatz, Fritz Schwarz-Waldegg, Maximilian Suppantschitsch, Eduard Thöny, Viktor Tischler, Georg Philipp Wörlen, Bettina Ehrlich, Anna Lesznai, Louise Merkel-Romée, Frieda Salvendy, Lilly Steiner, Frantz Jourdain, Georges Rouault, Albert Marquet, Édouard Vuillard, Odilon Redon, Paul Cézanne, Eugène Carrière, Henri Matisse, Kees van Dongen, Aristide Maillol, Constantin Brâncuși, Amedeo Modigliani, Felix Albrecht Harta, Marcel Duchamp,Josef Floch, Johannes Auerbach, Lajos Barta und Auguste Renoir

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