Karl Schrag

(Karlsruhe, Germany, 1912 - 1995)

North America, American

Karl Schrag was a noted American painter and printmaker, who was influenced by both American and European modernist styles. Schrag studied art in Geneva and Paris prior to moving to New York in 1938 and enrolling at the Art Students League. Schrag studied printmaking at Stanley William Hayter’s Atelier 17 in the late 1940s, working alongside Joan Miro, Mauricio Lasansky and Jackson Pollock. He became skilled in a range of print media, and taught printmaking at Brooklyn College (1953-54) and Cooper Union (1954-1968). From the late 1940s, Schrag was represented by Kraushaar Gallery and the Brooklyn Museum organized his first career retrospective in 1960. Schrag’s work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,, the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the British Museum and the Uffizi Gallery.

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