Bromberg, Manuel. Born 1917. Painter, muralist, sculptor, war artist.

Manuel Bromberg was born in Centerville, Iowa. After studying at The Cleveland School of Art and The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, he painted murals for the Works Progress Administration. He entered the Army in April 1942 and was appointed to the War Artists Unit a year later.  He painted, sketched, and drew the war throughout the European Theater and was part of the invasion of Normandy at Omaha Beach.  He was awarded the Legion of Merit for creating an extraordinarily fine graphic record of the war and his work was published in many magazines and newspapers, including LIFE and The New York Times.  After being discharged from the Army as a Master Sergeant in 1945, Bromberg won a Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Painting and became a professor at North Carolina State University's School of Design.  Still an active artist, he now works with fiberglass and creates large culptural castings of rock and cliff formations. He now resides in Woodstock, New York.

Source: U.S. Army Center for Military History Washington, D.C..
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Professional Career:
Professor Emeritus, State University of New York, New Paltz, New York.  Professor, School of Design, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina.  Fellow, Creative Painting, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.  Official War Artist, U.S. Army, Europe, World War II.

Education:
Graduate, Cleveland Institute of Art; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center with Boardman Robinson and H. V. Poor.

Exhibitions:
Over 30 Museum and gallery exhibitions.

Murals:
Tahlequah, Oklahoma, Post Office; Greybull, Wyoming, Post Office; Geneva, Illinois, Post Office; Keesler Field, Mississippi; College Union Building, North Carolina State Univerity, Raleigh, N.C.; Teaneck Medical Center, Teaneck, N.J.

Work Reproduced:
Life Magazine; Art News; Art Digest; New York Times; Gallery of Great Painting, Crown; War Art Hyperion; American Art Today National Society; Arts Magazine.

Collections:
Numerous Private Collections; Battle of Normandy Memorial Museum, Caen, France; Smithsonian Institute; Storm King Art Center; Hankone Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; U.S. Army Center for Military History, Washington, D.C.; West Point Museum; Princeton Art Museum; S.U.N.Y., New Paltz, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Sculpture; General G.C. Marshall Library.

Source: Manuel Bromberg
Compiled and submitted by James and Kimel Baker