Painting and Sculpture

Joseph Friebert (painter)

Joseph Friebert (May 11, 1908 – December 16, 2002) was an American painter and printmaker in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Much of Friebert's work, from the Social Realist style of his early period to the figurative approach of his later years, tackles class, race, and labor struggles, as well as the evolution of Milwaukee throughout the Great Depression and postwar years. In the 1950s, Friebert turned to semiabstraction, focused on urban structures and landscapes, and one of his paintings was included in the American pavilion of the 1956 Venice Biennale. He taught at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee from 1946 to 1976. In 2015 the Wisconsin-based Kohler Foundation distributed 280 paintings by Friebert to art museums nationwide in an attempt to increase his representation in public collections. Among institutions that received works were the Art Institute of Chicago, Detroit Institute of Arts, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and Philadelphia Museum of Art. He is currently represented in 47 American museums.

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• ▸Matisse Museum (Le Cateau-Cambrésis)
• ▸High Street, Oxford (painting)
• ▸La Négresse (Manet)

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