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Josef Zenk

Josef Zenk (1904 - 2000) was active/lived in Pennsylvania.  Josef Zenk is known for Landscapes, portraits, abstraction, block prints.

Joseph Zenk's artistic career spanned more than forty years of experimentation and development. Encompassing the progressive currents of early 20th-century modernism, his work evolved from a style of expressive representation to one of dramatic abstraction.

Joseph Zenk was born in New York City in 1904. After graduating from high school, he attended the National Academy of Design for three years, and then continued his studies at the Art Students League of New York. In 1926, while on a sketching trip through New England and the Mohawk Valley, Zenk decided to settle in Utica, New York. A productive period followed, yielding numerous landscapes, figurative works, and still-lifes. Zenk was active in a small community of Utica artists who organized exhibitions in 1927-28 of some of the leading American painters of the period, including Hopper, Sheeler and Fiene. In 1930 he was given a full scholarship to study at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica. A one-man show of his p   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2252 characters.]  Artist bio

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