Manuel Abraham Bromberg

Plaats: Centerville

Geboren: 1917

Dood: 2022

Biografie:

Manuel Abraham Bromberg was an American artist and Professor Emeritus of Art, at the State University of New York at New Paltz. He was born in Centerville, Iowa, to David Bromberg, an immigrant from Germany, and Tonata Sobul, an immigrant from Poland. At the age of 16, Bromberg was chosen the winner of the prestigious George Bellows Award, a national art competition among high school students. He opted instead to accept a full scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art, and later studied at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center with Boardman Robinson and Henry Varnum Poor from 1932 to 1940. Bromberg completed three murals for the New Deal's Section of Fine Arts in Greybull, Wyoming, Tahlequah, Oklahoma, and Geneva, Illinois. He married Jane Dow in Woodstock, New York, in December 1941. In 1943, at the age of 26, Bromberg was appointed by George Biddle, chairman of the War Department Art Advisory Board, as an official war artist. He served with the European Theater of Operations (England, France, and Germany) and landed on Omaha Beach in June 1944. While in France, Bromberg met Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, and Georges Braque. In 1944, he was awarded the Legion of Merit. Bromberg taught at Salem College, North Carolina State University College of Design, from 1949 to 1954, where he collaborated with Buckminster Fuller and others to form Skybreak Carolina Corp. In 1953, Bromberg was commissioned to create a mural for the student union building of NCSU. In the 1960s, while Professor of Painting at the State University of New York at New Paltz, Bromberg created a series of monumentally-scaled castings of cliff faces. One of Bromberg's cliff sculptures appears in the permanent collection of Storm King Art Center. Bromberg lived in Woodstock, New York. He turned 100 in March 2017, and died on February 3, 2022, at the age of 104.