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Nationality
  
American

Name
  
Joseph Fleck

Known for
  
Painting




Born
  
August 25, 1892 (
1892-08-25
)
Sziklos, Austria-Hungary

Notable work
  
Fiesta Array, Taos (1929) Amarilla (1929) Geraniums (1928) Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall on the Campus (1944-1945)

Movement
  
Regionalism, Social realism, American modernism, American realism, Synchromism

Awards
  
Arizona State Fair (1928) Kansas City Art Institute (1929) Leon Gaspard Memorial Prize (1964) New Mexico State Fair (1965)

Died
  
April 5, 1977, Pleasanton, California, United States

Education
  
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Books
  
The Life and Art of Joseph Amadeus Fleck: A Fine Sense of Poetry

Periods
  
Social realism, Synchromism, American realism, American modernism

Patrons
  
Thomas Hart Benton, Ernest L. Blumenschein

Karl Joseph Fleck, 1928 - 2015


Joseph Amadeus Fleck (August 25, 1892 – April 5, 1977) was an American painter and muralist. His works include The Red Man of Oklahoma Sees the First Stage Coach, in Hugo, Oklahoma, and First Mail Crossing Raton Pass and Unloading the Mail in Raton, in Raton, New Mexico.

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Biography

Joseph A. Fleck was born in Austria in 1892 and received his academic training at the Royal Viennese Art Academy and Royal Art Academy in Munich. He moved to Kansas City, Missouri in 1922 and settled in Taos, New Mexico in 1925. From 1942 to 1946 he was Dean of Fine Arts and artist in residence at the University of Missouri in Kansas City.

Awards

  • Arizona State Fair, First Prize, 1928
  • Kansas City Art Institute, 1923, 1929, 1934 (prize)
  • Art Institute of Chicago, 1927 (prize)
  • References

    Joseph Fleck Wikipedia