Exhibition History

1954

Annual Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1st Prize for Der Kreis (The Circle)

1957–70

Case Western Reserve University, Eldred Hall Gallery — 11 solo exhibitions were held during this period, which from 1965–70 featured the “Graphic Icons” series.

1957–60

Howard Wise Gallery of Present-Day Painting and Sculpture, Cleveland — solo exhibitions mounted annually during this period.

1958

Carnegie International (Pittsburgh Bicentennial) — Cat. No. 44 Red Form on White, 1956, 54 x 60 inches

1997

Gewerbeverband Basel-Stadt, Switzerland — Retrospective exhibition of 140 works on paper

2014

Studio Vendome, New York — “Harry Bertschmann – Abstract Dynamics”

2018

Quogue Gallery (June-July) — “Harry Bertschmann – Over 50 Years of Painting”

2019

Hollis Taggart, New York (March) — “Harry Bertschmann – The 1950s”

2020

Robert Berry Gallery — “It’s Time to Stick Together – 60 Years of Collage in America“

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Bertschmann won first prize at the Annual Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art for a large canvas — Der Kreis (The Circle) — possibly the painting beside which he is standing here.
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Cover of the Carnegie International Exhibition of 1958 (The Pittsburgh Bicentennial) for which the jury selected Bertschmann’s Red Form on White, 1956, 54 x 60 inches.
Figurative Study no.92 acrylic Figurative Expressionism
Bertschmann in Cleveland, 1956