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Birth
1883 (Munich, Germany)
Death
1972 (Hayward, California)
Lived/Active
Illinois/New York
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social realist genre and figure, prints
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| Carl Hoeckner, a painter, lithographer, muralist and teacher, was best known for his paintings on subjects of war and political and social injustices, although he also did an occasional landscape. He was an individualist who believed in self-expression, and called his paintings "social documents." Chicago critic C. J. Bulliet described Hoeckner as "the most formidable of Chicago artists dealing with 'the social scene' and yet the least propaganda minded." (Kennedy 122). For Hoeckner, the trauma (showing 500 of 3141 characters). |
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