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- Painter Albert Bloch, 1882
- Painter Heinrich Campendonk, 1889
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Albert Bloch (August 2, 1882 – March 23, 1961) was an American Modernist artist and the only American artist associated with Der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider), a group of early 20th century European modernists.
He was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He first studied art at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts. In 1901 - 03 he produced comic strips and cartoons for the St. Louis Star newspaper. Between 1905 and 1908 he worked as a caricaturist and illustrator for William Marion Reedy's literary and political weekly The Mirror. From 1909 to 1921, Bloch lived and worked mainly in Germany.
After the end of World War I, Bloch returned to the United States,
teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Chicago for a year, and then
accepting a Departmental Head position at the University of Kansas until
his retirement in 1947.
Heinrich Campendonk (3 November 1889 – 9 May 1957) was a Dutch painter of German birth.
He was born in Krefeld. He was a member of the Der Blaue Reiter group, from 1911 to 1912. When the Nazi regime came to power in 1933, he was among the many modernists condemned as degenerate artists,
and prohibited from exhibiting. He moved to the Netherlands, where he
spent the rest of his life working at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, first teaching Decorative Art, printmaking and stained glass, then as the Academy Director. He died as a naturalized Dutchman.
