Oscar Florianus Bluemner
(b. 1867, d. 1938)

Oscar Bluemner was born in Prenzlau, Germany in 1867.  Between 1886 and 1892, he attended technical high schools in Hannover and Berlin, Germany and immigrated to the United States in 1892. He moved to Chicago in 1893 where he freelanced as a draftsman at the World's Columbian Exposition. After the exposition, he attempted to find work in both Chicago and New York City, but could not find steady employment. By 1900, he settled in the New York City area and in 1903, he created the winning design for the Bronx Borough Courthouse in New York.

 

Bluemner also painted and sketched landscapes in Germany and America and in 1912, he gave up architecture to devote all his energies to painting. In 1938, bedridden and in great pain as the result of an automobile accident, Bluemner took his own life.

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