American, 1916 - 1991
Bischoff received his education at the University of California, Berkeley, from which he received the B.A. degree in 1938, and M.A. in 1939. His first one-man exhibition occurred in 1947, at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco. Among his many solo exhibitions since are those held by the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 1961; the Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, 1968; the Boston University Art Gallery (with Richard Diebenkorn), 1974; the E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, California, 1981; and a retrospective, Elmer Bischoff 1940 to 1985 which was shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Seattle (Washington) Museum of Art, Laguna Beach (California) Museum of Art, and The Phillips Collection, Washington, D. C., 1985-86.
Bischoff began teaching at the California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco in 1946, and remained affiliated with that institution (renamed the San Francisco Art Institute) until 1963, with the exception of the period 1953-56, when he taught at Yuba College, Marysville, California. In 1963 he joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, from which he retired in 1985. From 1967 to 1984 he served on the Board of Governors of the Skowhegan (Maine) School. Bischoff's special contribution as an educator has been recognized by the College Art Association of America, which presented him with its Distinguished Teaching Award for 1983, and by the Otis Art Institute of the Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, which awarded him an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree the same year.
He is represented by the John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, and by Hirschl and Adler Modern, New York.
Bischoff began teaching at the California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco in 1946, and remained affiliated with that institution (renamed the San Francisco Art Institute) until 1963, with the exception of the period 1953-56, when he taught at Yuba College, Marysville, California. In 1963 he joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, from which he retired in 1985. From 1967 to 1984 he served on the Board of Governors of the Skowhegan (Maine) School. Bischoff's special contribution as an educator has been recognized by the College Art Association of America, which presented him with its Distinguished Teaching Award for 1983, and by the Otis Art Institute of the Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, which awarded him an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree the same year.
He is represented by the John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, and by Hirschl and Adler Modern, New York.
