JOSEF PRESSER

"CIRCUS PERFORMERS"

MIXED MEDIA ON PANEL, SIGNED

POLISH-AMERICAN, C.1960

38 X 28 INCHES

FRAMED 42 X 32 INCHES

Josef Presser

1907-1967

 

Josef Presser was born in Lublin, Poland.

 

He was a painter, educator, teacher, graphic artist and illustrator.

 

He studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School, and with Bryant Baker, Henry Hunt Clark, Philip Hale, and William James.

 

He was a member of the Philadelphia Watercolor Club and the New Haven Paint and Clay Club and exhibited at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

 

He exhibited extensively in the 1930s-1950s at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, among others and won any prizes.

 

His work is in many museum collections, both here and abroad, including the Uffizi, Florence, The Whitney Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia.

 

Presser passed away in Paris in 1967.