David Karfunkle
{{Short description|American painter}}
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| name = David Karfunkle
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| caption = David Karfunkle, from the Archives of American Art
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| birth_date = {{birth-date|1880}}
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| death_date = {{death year and age|1959|1880}}
| death_place = Vienna
| nationality = Austrian American
| known_for = Painting, muralist
| training = National Academy of Design
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David Karfunkle (1880–1959) was an American artist. He is known for his mural, "Exploitation of Labor and Hoarding of Wealth", painted in 1936 at the Harlem Courthouse.{{cite web|url=http://culturenow.org/entry&permalink=03413&seo=Exploitation-of-Labor-and-Hoarding-of-Wealth_David-Karfunkle |title=Exploitation of Labor and Hoarding of Wealth: David Karfunkle |publisher=CultureNOW |date= |accessdate=2011-12-29}}{{cite web|url=http://www.harlemonestop.com/organization.php?id=687 |title=Harlem Court House, East Harlem (El Barrio) |publisher=Harlem One Stop |date=August 2, 1967 |accessdate=2011-12-29}}{{cite web |url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcas/html/resources/man_harlemcourthouse.shtml |title=Harlem Court House |publisher=Nyc.gov |accessdate=2011-12-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111211231237/http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcas/html/resources/man_harlemcourthouse.shtml |archivedate=December 11, 2011 |df=mdy-all }}
Biography
He was born in Vienna.{{Cite web |url=http://www.fruitlands.org/media/Artist%20Bios-New%20England%20Impressionists2011.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=December 22, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415052339/http://www.fruitlands.org/media/Artist%20Bios-New%20England%20Impressionists2011.pdf |archive-date=April 15, 2012 |url-status=usurped }}
He studied with Ludwig von Herterich, and Antoine Bourdelle.
He studied at the National Academy of Design, with William Glackens.
In 1911, he showed at the Salmagundi Club.[https://books.google.com/books?id=gl4oAAAAYAAJ&dq=David+Karfunkle+national+gallery&pg=PA641 "The Craftsman"], The United Crafts, 1911
In 1916, he had a group exhibition at the Strauss Gallery.{{cite news| url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1916/03/31/104670631.pdf| title=Art Notes| work=The New York Times| date= March 31, 1916}}
He was a member of the Federal Art Project.
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External links
- [http://www.artfact.com/catalog/searchLots.cfm?scp=m&ord=2&ad=DESC&artistRef=THX26JLZCQ David Karfunkel paintings at Artfact]
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Category:20th-century American painters
Category:American male painters
Category:Painters from New York City
Category:Federal Art Project artists
Category:20th-century American male artists
Category:Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to the United States
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