Joseph Meierhans (American/Swiss, –1981)

Timeline

1890
Born in Ober-Lunkhofen-Aargau, Switzerland
1917
Moved to New York to work for a Swiss textile mill, New York, NY
1920
Studied at the Art Students League with Karl Knaths, John Sloan and later with AN Lindenmuth
1932
Moved to Bucks County, PA
1956
Founded Meierhans Gallery which became a showplace for Delaware Valley artists, Hagersville, PA
1917–1981
Became a member of the Society of Independent Artists, the Provincetown Art Association, and the Lansdale Art League
1981
Died in Murphy, NC

Exhibitions

1993
Aspects of American Abstraction: 1930-1942, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
1992
Bianco Gallery, Buckingham, PA
1985
Josef Meierhans (1890-1981): An American Modernist--Works from the 1940's and 1950's, Princeton Gallery of Fine Art, Princeton, NJ (solo)
1958
Artists Gallery, New York, NY
English (US)

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