1. Louis Schanker grew up in an Orthodox Jewish environment in the Bronx, New York.
10 Facts About Louis Schanker
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Louis Schanker took art courses at Cooper Union, The Educational Alliance and The Art Students League with Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko and Milton Avery amongst others.
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Louis Schanker lived the hobo life, joined the Sparks and then Barnum and Bailey circuses, later working as a thresher in the wheat fields of the Great Plains.
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Louis Schanker had his first show in 1933 at the Contemporary Arts Gallery and first exhibited at the Whitney Museum in 1936.
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Louis Schanker was an artist and supervisor in the mural and graphic arts departments.
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Louis Schanker moved into teaching, first at the New School for Social Research and then, from 1949 until his retirement, at Bard College.
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Louis Schanker was one of the major printmakers of the 1930s.
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Louis Schanker continued to be an active part of the New York art scene with many group and solo exhibitions including two shows at the Brooklyn Museum and a 1978 retrospective at the Associated American Artists.
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Louis Schanker's has remained popular and there is still continuing interest in his works.
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Louis Schanker died on May 7,1981, at the Lenox Hill Hospital, after previously suffering a stroke.