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Birth
1916 (Berkeley, California)
Death
1991 (Berkeley, California)
Lived/Active
California
Self portrait - Elmer Nelson Bischoff - Self Portrait
Often Known For
modernist figure, abstraction
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Categories of Interest
Abstract Expressionism
California Painters
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BISCHOFF, ELMER NELSON
Elmer Bischoff was born on July 6, 1916 in Berkeley, California. He studied at the University of California at Berkeley. Bischoff grew up in a home that valued the arts, painting and making music were important to him since childhood. As an art student he had spent about ten years painting in the style of Picasso. Following graduation from Berkeley in 1939, Bischoff became a ceramics and jewelry teacher at a high school in Sacramento, California (showing 500 of 6499 characters). |
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