24 Facts About Stefan Hirsch

Stefan Hirsch's work achieved critical recognition from 1919 onward, has been widely collected, and is today found in many American museums including the Phillips Collection, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Corcoran Gallery.

Stefan Hirsch studied law and art at the University of Zurich and was there exposed to artists associated with the Dada movement.

At the time of his first one-man show in 1927 a critic for the New York Sun was surprised Stefan Hirsch had not been given one before.

Stefan Hirsch's work stood out when it was exhibited and was collected widely, this critic wrote.

Stefan Hirsch said it was modern but not revolutionary and its quality was undisputed.

Stefan Hirsch's drawing, House, of 1920 shows some influences of Cezanne and the cubists in its juxtaposed panels and emphasis on the two-dimensional surface of the paper.

Stefan Hirsch's painting, Lower Manhattan, of either 1920 or 1921, is one of his best known pieces.

Stefan Hirsch's 1919 drawing of flowers on a table with note cards and knife is realistic with a tonal balance and clarity that would later be recognized as distinguishing his best work.

In 1922 Stefan Hirsch was a founding director and recording secretary of the Salons of America.

Stefan Hirsch would remain as a director and would continue to show at the Salons exhibitions until 1936.

Two years later, with Robert Laurent, Wood Gaylor, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Stefan Hirsch established the Field Foundation.

The paintings, drawings, and lithographs that Stefan Hirsch made in the 1930s were mainly in the social realist style of the time.

Stefan Hirsch's colors were bolder and the paintings showed more depth.

Stefan Hirsch wished to paint a Civil War skirmish that took place near Booneville and when that was refused, he painted a war-related scene of home-front family members and overseas servicemen writing and reading letters.

From 1919 when he and his parents returned from Germany until 1931 when he married the teacher and artist, Elsa Rogo, Stefan Hirsch had lived in his parents' house in Columbia Heights, Brooklyn.

Stefan Hirsch's first teaching job, at Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, began in 1934 and continued until 1940.

From 1940 to 1946, Stefan Hirsch taught at the Art Students League of New York.

In 1941 Stefan Hirsch participated in a controversy about experimentation in art in the New York Times.

Stefan Hirsch responded to the effect that quality in art wasn't so much dependent on simply being new as it was on fresh interpretation of timeless themes and techniques.

Stefan Hirsch's father, Angelo Stefan Hirsch, was born on April 11,1863, in Roth, Bavaria, Germany.

Stefan Hirsch emigrated to New York in 1886 and died there aged 74 on August 1,1937.

Stefan Hirsch's mother was Florence Thurnauer who was the daughter of William Thurnauer and Mina Thurnauer.

Stefan Hirsch had a sister, Dorothy, who was ten years younger than he.

Stefan Hirsch lived with his parents until his marriage on January 25,1931, to Elsa Rogo The couple had no children.