BOB FRIEMARK

 

Bob Freimark hails from the period when it was deemed desirable for an artist to express in any media he happened to encounter. Consequently, to avoid the limitations inherent in specialization, all media became important to him. Since 1948 he has shown internationally in painting, watercolor, drawing, all print media, tapestry, sculpture, and recently video and film.

 

 

BIOGRAPHY

 

Born in 1922, he graduated from the University of Toledo, and went on for an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Later he was a student of Max Weber, and was elected to New Talent in the USA in 1957.

In the period 1960-68 he created a series of serigraphs entitled "Fifty States" which were completed under the aegis of a California State Colleges Special Creative Leave. They became the official U.S. bicentennial offering in 1976, opening at the Amerika Haus in Munich. They have been shown throughout the world, and the National Museum in Washington has acquired the complete set together with all accompanying sketches, plates, etc.

 

 

MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS

 

Freimark has over 250 solo exhibitions to his credit in such institutions as the Toledo Museum of Art, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Morris and Sal Peter Galleries in NYC, Santa Barbara Museum, Galerie Alliance in Copenhagen, etc. In 1990 he had shows in Stara Radnice in Brno and Strahov Kloster in Praha, Czechoslovakia. His works are in collections including: Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Fogg Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, British Museum, Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Library of Congress, and National Gallery in Prague. He has lectured around the world, and was Visiting Professor at Harvard University in 1972-73.

Recently he has shown in "Künstler aus den USA" at Galerie Waiter Bischoff in Stuttgart, a major tapestry retrospective at Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara, CA; and exhibitions in Antigua and Guatemala City, as well as Kunstostbayern in Viechtach, Germany, Amerika Haus in Stuttgart (1992), and Galerie Saint Cenerei-Ie-Gerei in France (1992). He was also invited to participate in the Quincentennial Exhibition of the Discovery of America at the Triton Museum of Art in 1992.