Carl Hoeckner
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| death_place = Berkeley, California
| nationality = American
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File:Carl Hoeckner - Machine Fodder, c. 1938.jpg
Carl Hoeckner (1883–1972) is an American artist active in Chicago during the Great Depression.
Biography
Hoeckner was born in 1883 in Munich, Germany.{{cite web |title=Carl Hoeckner |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/carl-hoeckner-2256 |website=Smithsonian American Art Museum |access-date=20 July 2022}} In 1910 he immigrated to Chicago.{{cite web |last1=Smith Scanlan |first1=Patricia |title=Carl Hoeckner |url=https://www.chicagomodern.org/artists/carl-hoeckner |website=Modernism in the New City: Chicago Artists, 1920-1950 |access-date=20 July 2022}} His first job in the United states was as an illustrator in the advertising department of Armour and Company, a meatpacking company in Chicago. He went on to work in the advertising department of Marshall Field's department store.{{cite web |last1=Bulliet |first1=Clarence J. |title=No. 86 Carl Hoeckner |url=https://www.illinoisart.org/no-86-carl-hoeckner |website=Artists of Chicago Past and Present |publisher=Illinois Historical Art Project |access-date=20 July 2022 |language=en}}
Hoeckner was active in the Chicago art scene. He was a member of the Palette and Chisel Club and the American Artists' Congress. He was associated with fellow artists Ramon Shiva, Rudolph Weisenborn, and Beatrice S. Levy. In 1921 he helped organize a showing of about 300 works at the A. M. Rothschild & Company Store. In 1922 he helped found the Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists. In the 1930s he worked for the graphics division for the Works Progress Administration Illinois Art Project. From 1929 to 1943 he taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Hoeckner exhibited with the Chicago Society of Artists and the Chicago Society of Etchers.
Hoeckner died in 1972 in Berkeley, California.
His work is in the Art Institute of Chicago,{{cite web |title=Carl Hoeckner |url=https://nocache.www.artic.edu/collection?artist_ids=Carl%20Hoeckner |website=The Art Institute of Chicago |access-date=20 July 2022 |language=en}} Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art,{{cite web |title=Works – Carl Hoeckner |url=https://collection.crystalbridges.org/people/1354/carl-hoeckner/objects |website=Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art |access-date=20 July 2022}} the Library of Congress,{{cite web |title=The homecoming / CH [monogram] ; Carl Hoeckner. |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/2003667630/ |website=Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA |access-date=20 July 2022}} the Metropolitan Museum of Art,{{cite web |title=Cycles |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/374919 |website=Metropolitan Museum of Art |access-date=20 July 2022}} the Monterey Museum of Art,{{cite web |title='A Vision' #16 |url=https://montereyart.org/embark/objects-1/info/1053?sort=0 |website=Montery Museum of Art |access-date=20 July 2022 |language=en}} the Museum of Modern Art,{{cite web |title=Carl Hoeckner |url=https://www.moma.org/artists/45814 |website=The Museum of Modern Art |access-date=20 July 2022 |language=en}} the National Gallery of Art,{{cite web |title=Carl Hoeckner |url=https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.33565.html |website=National Gallery of Art |access-date=20 July 2022}} the Philadelphia Museum of Art,{{cite web |title=Machine Fodder |url=https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/47513 |website=Philadelphia Museum of Art |access-date=20 July 2022 |language=en}} the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.{{cite web |title=Carl Hoeckner {{!}} The Fifth Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Kill |url=https://whitney.org/collection/works/50154 |website=Whitney Museum of American Art |access-date=20 July 2022 |language=en}}
References
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External links
- [https://nocache.www.artic.edu/collection?artist_ids=Carl%20Hoeckner images of Hoeckner's work] from the Art Institute of Chicago
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Category:American male artists
Category:Emigrants from the German Empire to the United States