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Ad Code: 3
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from Auction House Records.
Winter Landscape with Village Houses
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  A Pennsylvania landscape painter living in Allentown, John Berninger is
described by art writer, Geoff Gehman, as being in the "outer ring of
the New Hope School." His career was devoted to depicting his
region in realist-impressionist style, especially snowscenes and
landmarks such as Meyers Bridge in Allentown.
Berninger studied with Orlando Gray Wales, Arlington Lindenmuth and
Walter Emerson Baum, and then was an art instructor at the Kline-Baum
School in Allentown. In 1934, he was selected as one of
four students of Baum into the Circulating Picture Club of the
Philadelphia Art Alliance, and two years later, he became Curator at
the Allentown Art Museum, which had just been founded by Baum.
Berninger's wife, Mabel, assisted him and served as museum curator and
secretary of the Circulating Picture Club.
In 1939, he joined the jewelry store, Wuchter and Berninger, as a
partner, and advertised his paintings by placing them in the store's
window. A local publisher and art enthusiast, Robert Rodale, saw
his work there and years later, in 2004, held the first major
exhibition of Berninger's artwork. The next year, Berninger's
work was represented in the Allentown Museum exhibit, "Allentown
Impressions: Views of City Parks".
A frequent painting companion was Karl Buesgen, local landscape painter
and musician. They spent nearly every Saturday together, painting
and talking, and died within a few months of each other in 1981.
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_E._Berninger
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