Artist

Emil Armin

born Radautz, Austria-Hungary 1883-died Chicago, IL 1971

Media - armin_emil.jpg - 89884 — Courtesy Emil Armin Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Born: Radautz, Austria-Hungary
Died: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Biography: Born in Romania. Immigrated to the United States at age twenty-two. Painter known for his use of vibrant color and brushwork.
Nora Panzer, ed. Celebrate America in Poetry and Art (New York and Washington, D.C.: Hyperion Paperbacks for Children in association with the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1994)
: Luce Artist Biography
Emil Armin showed a talent for art as a child in Austria. His parents died when he was ten, and Armin was forced to work odd jobs to support the family. He waited tables and sketched in his spare time until a brother encouraged Armin to join him in Chicago. Armin enrolled in courses at the Art Institute, where George Bellows and Randall Davey encouraged him to paint spontaneously and expressively. By the early 1920s, he was a star on the Chicago art scene, participating in various exhibitions and progressive art organizations and working with the Jewish Board of Education to teach art in the schools. (McKenna, Emil Armin, 1883-1971, 1980)

Works by this artist (2 items)

Alyn Williams, Dr. William Henry Holmes, 1928, watercolor and pencil on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist, 1931.2.11

Dr. William Henry Holmes

Artist

Date1928

watercolor and pencil on paper

Alyn Williams, President William Howard Taft, 1910, watercolor on ivory, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist, 1937.12.1

President William Howard Taft

Artist

Date1910

watercolor on ivory