Background
Karl Schrag was born on December 7, 1912 in Karlsruhe, Germany. He was a son of Hugo Schrag and Bella (Sulzberger) Schrag. Karl came to the United States in 1938, and six years later, in 1944, he received American citizenship.
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École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
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Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris
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Art Students League of New York
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Brooklyn College, New York
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Cooper Union, New York
Karl Schrag was born on December 7, 1912 in Karlsruhe, Germany. He was a son of Hugo Schrag and Bella (Sulzberger) Schrag. Karl came to the United States in 1938, and six years later, in 1944, he received American citizenship.
In 1931, Karl enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Geneva. Two years later, in 1933, he left for Paris, where he studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. In France, he also attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and the Académie Ranson.
In 1938, Karl came to the United States, where he studied at the Art Students League of New York.
In 1947, Karl held his first solo exhibition at the Kraushaar Gallery in New York. The same year, he started to work as a printmaker at the Atelier 17, together with such artists, as Joan Miró, Jackson Pollock and Marc Chagall, mastering a wide range of print media. Three years later, in 1950, Schrag was promoted to the post of a director of the Atelier 17, a post he held till 1951. During the period from 1953 to 1954, Schrag worked as a teacher at Brooklyn College in New York. Since 1954 till 1968, Karl taught at Cooper Union.
Also, Schrag had his first retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum in 1960. Another retrospective of his work was held at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland in 1992.
Karl was a member of National Academy of Design and Artists Equity Association. Also, he was a member of the jury for the National Fulbright Awards.
Karl married Ilse Szamatolski on June 12, 1945. Their marriage produced two children — Peter and Katherine.