biographie de Franz Arthur BISCHOFF (1864-1929)

Birth place: Austria

Death place: Pasadena, CA

Addresses: NYC; Pittsburgh, PA; Fostoria, OH; Detroit, MI; Dearborn, MI; South Pasadena, CA

Profession: Painter, ceramicist

Studied: Vienna, Austria

Exhibited: World's Columbian Expo., Chicago, 1893 (ceramics); Louisiana Purchase Expo., St Louis, 1904 (ceramics); Pan.- Calif. Int'l Expo., San Diego, 1915 (bronze & silver med); Calif. AC, 1924 (Huntington prize)

Member: Calif. AC.

Work: Laguna Beach Mus.; Gardena High Sch.; Oakland Mus.; Terra Mus., Chicago

Comments: Immigrated to the U.S. in 1885. He worked as a decorator of china and also taught the subject, 1888-1900, in Detroit, MI, and later in Pasadena, CA. Having been very successful at his craft, he built an Italian Renaissance style studio-home in Pasadena and began painting landscapes, as well as still lifes and coastal scenes. He is considered one of the best plein-air painters and earned a reputation for his use of color, especially in his paintings of roses.

Sources: Hughes, Artists of California, 51; Gibson, Artists of Early Michigan, 53; 300 Years of American Art, 579.