Christoph Blumrich
Impressionist Landscape Artist
The dividing line between painting and illustration is a very fluid one and many former illustrators have risen to the status of painter by way of their commercial careers. As illustrator or fine arts painter, it’s the same joy of bringing their art to the viewing public that act as motivator. Norman Rockwell, Tolouse Lautrec, Picasso, and Matisse crossed this line, to mention a few. Peter Max and Andy Warhol came from the commercial art world and now are featured in major museums. Even the subway graffiti artist Keith Haring has joined their august ranks.
Born in Austria, Blumrich immigrated to the United States at 18 years old. He began his career in Alabama and later New York City. (His father was part of the Von Braun space team).
In New York City, Blumrich taught information graphics at The New School in Greenwich Village. Courses he took at the School of Visual Arts set Blumrich on a path toward illustration and painting. He joined the Pushpin Group "…where he established himself as one of America’s leading illustrators." (Editor, Graphis Magazine, p. 245 Sept/Oct 1986.)
Blumrich’s European clients have given him considerable creative freedom and encouragement; in fact, they were more than happy to receive oil paintings to reproduce as illustrations. Oil painting then became more and more Blumrich’s focus of development. Painting trips to California, Colorado, Alabama, Italy, Austria, France, and Germany followed in regular intervals for some 30 years. Concurrently, Blumrich’s commercial work received widespread recognition in magazines on both sides of the Atlantic in exhibitions and group shows. Since Blumrich has worked in a wide variety of media: oil, gouache, egg tempera, water color, charcoal, pen-and-ink, computer art, and sculpture. His exhibitions have reflected his diverse skills.
Blumrich, who resides on Long Island, has purchased a home in Windsor, NY, in 2002, which has opened a vista of wonderful landscape subjects.
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