Carl Hoeckner

Carl Hoeckner (1883-1972) is an American artist active in Chicago during the Great Depression.

Carl Hoeckner
Born1883 (1883)
Munich, Germany
Died1972 (aged 88–89)
Berkeley, California
NationalityAmerican
Known forPainter, printmaker
Carl Hoeckner - Machine Fodder, c. 1938

Biography

Hoeckner was born in 1883 in Munich, Germany.[1] In 1910 he immigrated to Chicago.[2] His first job in the United states was as an illustrator in the advertising department of Armour and Company, a meatpacking company in Chicago. He went on to work in the advertising department of Marshall Field's department store.[3]

Hoeckner was active in the Chicago art scene. He was a member of the Palette and Chisel Club and the American Artists' Congress.[2] He was associated with fellow artists Ramon Shiva, Rudolph Weisenborn, and Beatrice S. Levy.[3] In 1921 he helped organize a showing of about 300 works at the A. M. Rothschild & Company Store.[2] In 1922 he helped found the Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists. In the 1930s he worked for the graphics division for the Works Progress Administration Illinois Art Project. From 1929 to 1943 he taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Hoeckner exhibited with the Chicago Society of Artists and the Chicago Society of Etchers.[2]

Hoeckner died in 1972 in Berkeley, California.[1]

His work is in the Art Institute of Chicago,[4] Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art,[5] the Library of Congress,[6] the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[7] the Monterey Museum of Art,[8] the Museum of Modern Art,[9] the National Gallery of Art,[10] the Philadelphia Museum of Art,[11] the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[1] and the Whitney Museum of American Art.[12]

References
  1. "Carl Hoeckner". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved July 20, 2022.
  2. Smith Scanlan, Patricia. "Carl Hoeckner". Modernism in the New City: Chicago Artists, 1920-1950. Retrieved July 20, 2022.
  3. Bulliet, Clarence J. "No. 86 Carl Hoeckner". Artists of Chicago Past and Present. Illinois Historical Art Project. Retrieved July 20, 2022.
  4. "Carl Hoeckner". The Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved July 20, 2022.
  5. "Works – Carl Hoeckner". Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Retrieved July 20, 2022.
  6. "The homecoming / CH [monogram] ; Carl Hoeckner". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved July 20, 2022.
  7. "Cycles". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved July 20, 2022.
  8. "'A Vision' #16". Montery Museum of Art. Retrieved July 20, 2022.
  9. "Carl Hoeckner". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved July 20, 2022.
  10. "Machine Fodder". Philadelphia Museum of Art. Retrieved July 20, 2022.
  11. "Carl Hoeckner | The Fifth Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Kill". Whitney Museum of American Art. Retrieved July 20, 2022.
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