DAVID LUDWIG BLOCH (German / American, 1910-2002). Mother and Child, 1980, Gouache, ink, graphite, and watercolor on a hard board. Signed and dated lower left hand corner. Unframed.
ARTIST PROFILE: David Ludwig Bloch was born in Floss (Germany) and despite losing his hearing as a child due to meningitis, Bloch at a young age apprenticed with a porcelain painter and designer starting in 1925. In 1934, Bloch enrolled in an applied painting program at what is now the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. However, with the rise of Nazism, Bloch was fired from his work and expelled from university for being Jewish. Following Kristallnacht in 1938, he was arrested and interned in the Dachau concentration camp. Eventually, Bloch moved to Shanghai, China where he continued to work as a commercial illustrator and created impressionistic and naturalistic watercolors and woodcuts of street scenes. Bloch stayed in China until 1949 and then moved with his wife to the United States, where he continued working as painter and graphic designer. The visual language of his art shifted to dark tones, haggard bodies, skeletons, and gates of camps. Bloch also had a one-man retrospective at the Jewish Museum in Munich in 2000. - 48 x 13 inches Estimate $800-1,200
