Karl Schrag
The son of a German father and American mother, Schrag was born in Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1912, and began his professional art studies at the École des Beaux-Arts in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1931. He moved to Paris two years later, furthering his education at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and the Académie Ranson. It was under the guidance of Roger Bissière at the latter where the young artist’s eyes were opened to the expressive possibilities of color, light, and space, and by 1936 he was working on his own in Brussels, later holding his first one-man show at the Galerie Arenberg in 1938. The same year, due to growing unrest in Europe, Schrag emigrated to New York City, where he continued painting and refining his printmaking skills under Harry Sternberg at the Art Students League.
The son of a German father and American mother, Schrag was born in Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1912, and began his professional art studies at the École des Beaux-Arts in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1931. He moved to Paris two years later, furthering his education at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and the Académie Ranson. It was under the guidance of Roger Bissière at the latter where the young artist’s eyes were opened to the expressive possibilities of color, light, and space, and by 1936 he was working on his own in Brussels, later holding his first one-man show at the Galerie Arenberg in 1938. The same year, due to growing unrest in Europe, Schrag emigrated to New York City, where he continued painting and refining his printmaking skills under Harry Sternberg at the Art Students League.
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