The Couple
Located in Dallas, TX
signed "EJB." at lower right 21 3/4 x 17 inches including frame
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1920s Modern Emil Bisttram Art
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Watercolor
Emil Bisttram Art
American, Hungarian, 1895-1976
Emil James Bisttram Born Hungary, 1895
Died New Mexico, 1976
Emil Bisttram was born in Hungary in 1895 and emigrated with his parents when he was eleven to America. Bisttram choose a more economically promising career in commercial art design due to his economic conditions. Bisttram opened his own art agency at the young age of twenty and during this time took classes with Leon Kroll at the Art Student League and with Jay Hambidge, an advocate of Dynamic Symmetry, at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (renamed the Parsons School of Design). Dynamic Symmetry is a system of spacial balances and had a lifelong impact on Bisttram. Bisttram taught at Parsons from 1920 to 1925 and at the New York Master Institute of United Arts at the Roerich Museum from 1925-1930. The Institute was a spiritual inspiration to Bisttram because it advocated linking the fine arts together. His style of painting however was more influenced by Kandinsky and he began to experiment in non-objective art.
Bisttram received many awards including a Guggenheim fellowship in 1931 to study mural painting. However, he decided to go to Mexico study with the great Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera. After returning from Mexico, Bisttram participated in an exhibition at the Whitney Museum for Guggenheim fellows in 1933 and received a commission to create a mural for the Taos, New Mexico courthouse.
The Taos School of Art (renamed Bisttram School of Fine Art) which explored spiritualism and meditation was opened by Bisttram in 1932 where he taught some famous painters including Florence Miller Pierce. Together with Raymond Jonson and Lauren Harris, the Transcendental Painting Group was formed in Santa Fe, New Mexico from 1938-1942. This group was considered very radical for the time and the community reacted with much disdain. Bisttram continued to teach and paint and it is thought that Bisttram’s art truly represents transcendental ideas.to
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"Taos Women" Emil Bisttram, Modernist, New Mexico Artist, Southwestern, Figures
Located in New York, NY
Emil Bisttram Taos Women Signed lower right Pencil on paper 11 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches Provenance David Cook Fine Art, Denver, Colorado Clare Walker Fine Art, Tarrytown, New York Bistt...
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1930s American Modern Emil Bisttram Art
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Lady with Flower
Located in Dallas, TX
signed "E.JB." at lower right 21 7/8 x 17 inches including frame
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1920s Modern Emil Bisttram Art
Materials
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The Couple
Located in Dallas, TX
signed "EJB" at lower left 21 13/16 x 17 inches including frame
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1920s American Modern Emil Bisttram Art
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Evocative and meditative, “Waterfall” is an original abstract oil pastel by celebrated Taos modernist Emil Bisttram, a key figure in American modernism and the Transcendental Paintin...
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Emil BisttramEmil Bisttram Taos School Transcendental Painter Abstract Watercolor, circa 1950s
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Emil Bisttram Taos School Transcendental Painter Abstract Watercolor
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Outstanding abstract watercolor on paper by Emil Bisttram signed lower right. Painting measures: 20 x 15 inches. Frame size: 27 3/4"h x 23 1/4"w. In excellent condition and beautifu...
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Emil BisttramVisionary Abstraction — Signed Encaustic, Transcendental Painting Group, 1939, 1939
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Visionary Abstraction — Signed Encaustic, Transcendental Painting Group, 1939
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A unique, beautifully composed, large-scale geometric abstraction encaustic, with fresh colors, on fibrous buff, wove paper; the image extending ...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Geometric Emil Bisttram Art
Materials
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