Artist

Oscar Florianus Bluemner

1867–1938 · born in Prenzlau · died in Braintree

Oscar Bluemner was a German-born American painter, born in Prenzlau in 1867. An architect by training, he moved to the United States in 1892 and made paintings of the New Jersey landscape in strong flat colors, especially red. He died in Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1938.