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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Portrait photograph of artist Franz Geritz with his wife Josephine and his daughters Mariska (L) and Ferenc (R) Franz Geritz, painter, printmaker, illustrator, writer and educator, was born in Budapest, Hungary. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1909, and graduated from the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland where he studied with Perham Nahl, Zavier Martinez and Frank Van Sloun. He taught block printing at the University of California Extension, Los Angeles for ten years; created block prints of views in Yosemite, Shasta, Mono Lake and Zion; was a member of the California Society of Etchers and California Printmakers; exhibited in group shows and had a solo exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum in 1926. His work is represented in collections of the Library of Congress, the Brooklyn Museum and many city and county libraries in California.
Type
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_893_0340 ark:/21198/zz002h2mb2
Subject
Artists--American--California--Los Angeles Children--California--Los Angeles Geritz, Ferenc, 1928-2012 Geritz, Mariska, b. 1929 Geritz, Josephine Heintz, 1899-1984 Geritz, Franz, 1895-1945
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