John Koch
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John Koch (August 18, 1909 – April 19, 1978) was an American painter, and an important figure in 20th century realist painting.
His early work may be considered Impressionist.
He is best known for his light-filled realist paintings of urban interiors, often featuring classical allusions, and set in his own Manhattan apartment. As visible in The Sculptor (1964, oil on canvas, 80" x 59 7/8", Brooklyn Museum), much of Koch's work is made up of portraits and social scenes, including cocktail parties and scenes with the artist at work with his models.
He was a mentor of the painter Charles Pfahl (b.
1946).
In 1953 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an associate member and became a full academician in 1954.
Life and career
He was born in Toledo, Ohio, to Marian Joan and Edward John Koch, and grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He spent two summers at an artists' colony in Provincetown, Massachusetts, during his high school years. He moved to New York City in 1928, where he met and became friends with Dora Zaslavsky, a gifted piano tutor with four years his senior. He moved to Paris, where he spent five years studying on his own, copying works from the Louvre and other museums, and providing himself with painting portraits.
In 1934, Zaslavsky was teaching at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City and waiting for her divorce to be decided. They were married on December 23, 1935. The Koch family was childless, which may have been a point of regret—his 1955 painting Father and Son depicts him switching from his easel to showing himself as a boy lying on the ground and sketching.
In 1943, Koch was called into the US Army but later found himself in New York veterans hospitals doing alternative service. He served at the Art Students League of New York, 1944-1946. After World War II, he became a featured artist for Portraits Incorporated, which earned commissions and charged up to $10,000 for a group portrait by him.
On the tenth floor of The El Dorado, a building at 300 Central Park West in 1953, John and Dora Koch bought a 14-room apartment. They then purchased a Dora's piano studio in a new building. Since the death of Koch's mother, his father came to live with them and appeared in individual portraits and a group portrait.
In 1975, Koch had a stroke that paralyzed his right hand and coerced him into a wheelchair. He regained some use of his hand, but he died in 1978 after a second stroke.