Kurt Roesch

The recorded working language is German. Employment is recorded with Sarah Lawrence College. Work by Kurt Roesch is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

• Name — Kurt Roesch • Born — 12 September 1905 • Birthplace — Berlin, Germany • Died — 8 October 1984 • Place of death — Connecticut, U.S. • Field — Painting • Illustration — Man with Bird by Kurt Roesch, Honolulu Museum of Art Kurt Ferdinand Roesch (1905–1984) was a German-born American painter.

Roesch was born on September 12, 1905 in Berlin and studied painting with the expressionist Karl Hofer. Roesch immigrated to the United States in 1933, living first in Katonah, New York, and then in New Canaan, Connecticut. He taught at Sarah Lawrence College from 1934 to 1972, and died October 8, 1984, at his home in New Canaan. Man with Bird from 1977, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, demonstrates his semiabstract images that often reference animals or plants. The Butler Institute of American Art (Youngstown, Ohio), the Columbus Museum of Art (Columbus, Ohio), the Frederick R Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis, Minnesota), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art (New York City), and the Sheldon Museum of Art (Lincoln, Nebraska) are among the public collections holding works by Roesch.