Background
Bloch was born to a Jewish family in Kansas City where he attended Southwest High School, and was an undergraduate at University of Missouri–Kansas City.
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Henry Wollman Bloch
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He later attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, graduating in 1944.
Career
Through the United States. Army Air Corps he received graduate training at the Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1993, Bloch bought Danseuse Faisant des Pointes (Dancer Making Pointes), by Edgar Degas. In 2005, the Federal Bureau of Investigation informed him that the painting had been stolen and the original owner, Huguette Clark, wanted to recover lieutenant
Bloch would not return the painting and said it was abandoned property since it had been 13 or 14 years since the painting had been stolen.
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In 1951, Bloch married Marion Helzberg. They had four children: Robert Bloch, Thomas Bloch, Mary Jo Bloch Brown, and Elizabeth Bloch Uhlmann and lived in the Kansas City metropolitan area. The Henry Wollman Bloch Fountain in front of Kansas City"s Union Station is named in his honor, as is the Henry W. Bloch School of Management at the University of Missouri–Kansas City and the Bloch Building, a major addition to Kansas City"s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Artist Bloch was inducted into the Junior Achievement"s United States. Business Hall of Fame in 2001.
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Judaism