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The son of an architect, Oscar Bluemner was born in Hanover, Germany during the year of 1867. When he was 18 years old, he gave his first exhibition in Berlin and shortly afterward won medals at the Royal Academy where he was studying painting and architecture. In 1892 an artistic argument with the All Highest , Wilhelm II, caused him to leave Germany suddenly for America. After two difficult years, he began to practice architecture from an office on 42nd Street in New York. Retiring from architecture in 1912, he returned to Germany for a year during which time another exhibition of his work was held in Berlin. Back in New York in 1913, he had a picture included in the Armory Show. In 1915, Alfred Stieglitz gave him his first one-man exhibition in New York at "291". He moved to South Braintree, Massachusetts in 1926 where he lived until his death in 1938/ EXHIBITIONS 1885 Berlin : Portraits 1912 Berlin : Landscapes 1913 Armory Show, New York 1915 Stieglitz Gallery, New York : One-Man Show 1916 Anderson Gallery, New York : Forum Group 1917 Bourgeois Galley, New York : Exhibited : 1917-1923 1924 Neumann Gallery, New York : Exhibited : 1924-1926 1926 Mrs. Liebman's Art Room, New York : One-Man Show 1928 Stieglitz's Intimate Gallery, New York : One-Man Show 1929 Whitney Museum Studio Galley, New York ; One-Man Show 1935 Marie Harriman Galley, New York : One-Man Show 1943 Today's Gallery, Boston : One-Man Show 1946 Whitney Museum : Pioneers of Modern Art in America 1949 Whitney Museum : Juliana Force Memorial Exhibition 1957 Graham Gallery, New York 1959 Graham Gallery, New York MUSEUM COLLECTIONS Whitney Museum of American Art Museum of Modern Art, New York Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. [[image]] 21. Excerpts from a letter by Alfred Stieglitz, courtesy of John Davis Hatch