KONRAD CRAMER (1888-1963)

Born in Germany in 1888, Konrad Cramer trained at Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts before settling in the United States in 1911. Working in Woodstock, New York, Cramer combined his European heritage with the artistic influences of his new home, experimenting with a personal mixture of Cubism, symbolism, and American Modernism. Also a skilled photographer, Cramer was acquainted with Alfred Stieglitz, and he later taught one of America’s first courses in photography at Bard College. Cramer’s work is now in numerous notable institutions including the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.