Fritzi Brod

Artist Details

• First Name Fritzi
• Maiden Name Schermer
• Alternate Name(s) Fredericka Schermer Brod
• Surname Brod
• Spouse’s Full Name Oswald ("Ozzie") Brod native Austrian living in America; on a buying trip for Brentano's New York, New York when the met; transferred to Chicago before they married in 1924
• Birth Date June 16, 1900
• Birth Place Prague, Bohemia (Czechoslovakia)
• Death Date December 1952
• Death Place Chicago, Illinois
• Ethnicity Caucasian
• Residence(s) Prague
  
  Vienna
  
  1924-1952:  Chicago
• Active In Chicago
• Categories Block Printer, Engraver, Lithographer, Painter-Oil, Watercolorist
• Training Lycee, Prague,
  Art Institute, Prague
  Kunstgewerbeschule, Vienna, Austria
  1932: started private lessons with A. Raymond Katz, Chicago, Illinois
  
• Subject(s) of Art Array
• Exhibitions History 1932-?: Little Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; [1932: solo]
  
  1933: Tower Town Gallery, Chicago, Illinois [solo]
  
  1934: Findlay Galleries [solo]
  
  1934, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1940-1945: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  
  1934-1951 (except 1935, 1937, 1945, 1947): Chicago and Vicinity Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1935: Boulevard Gallery, Chicago, Illinois [solo]
  
  1935: Chicago Woman's Aid Gallery [solo]
  
  1936: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois [solo]
  
  1936: Rockford Art Association, Rockford, Illinois [solo]
  
  1937: Chicago Society of Artists Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
  
  1937: Rockford Art Association, Rockford, Illinois; Setting the Table
  
  1938: Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
  
  1938: Cornell University, Ithaca, New York [solo]
  
  1938: Theobald Galleries, Chicago, Illinois [solo]
  
  1939: Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan
  
  1939: Milwaukee Art Institute, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  
  1939, 1946, 1947: New Trier High School, Winnetka, Illinois [solo]
  
  1939: Toronto Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
  
  1940: Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
  
  May 1941: [exhibit announced in 5/18 Chicago Tribune]
  
  1942, 1945, 1946: National Academy of Design, New York, New York
  
  December 9, 1943-January 30, 1944: The Room of Chicago Art: Paintings by Fritzi Brod, Joshua Kaganove, Alice Mason and Dan Palumbo, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1943, 1944: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois [solo]
  
  1944: Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio
  
  1944: The Norlyst Galleries, New York, New York
  
  1945: Los Angeles Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
  
  1946: Pictures up to $20.00, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1947: The Cordon, Chicago, Illinois [solo]
  
  1947: Elgin Academy Art Gallery, Elgin, Illinois [solo]
  
  1947: Zikes Galleries, Prague, Czechoslovakia [solo]
  
  1948: Benedict Art Gallery, Hull House, Chicago, Illinois [solo]
  
  1948: Chicago Public Library, Chicago, Illinois [solo]
  
  1948: Palmer House Galleries, Chicago, Illinois [solo]
  
  1948: Riccardo Studio Gallery, Chicago, Illinois [solo]
  
  1949-1952: Artist Members Exhibition, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, Illinois; [April 2-29, 1950: solo]
  
  1950: Chicago Public Library, Chicago, Illinois [solo]
  
  1953: memorial exhibit, Renaissance Society and Chicago Society of Artists, Mandel Brothers Department Store, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1983: After the Great Crash: New Deal Art in Illinois, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois
  
  November 5-December 12, 1993: The 'New Woman' in Chicago, 1910-45, Paintings from Illinois Collections, Rockford College Art Gallery, Rockford, Illinois; Self-Portrait (Peasant Blouse), 1934, oil on panel
  
  January 19, 1994-March 18, 1994: The 'New Woman' in Chicago, 1910-45, Paintings from Illinois Collections, Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; Self-Portrait (Peasant Blouse), 1934, oil on panel
  
  September 11, 1994-October 14, 1994: The 'New Woman' in Chicago, 1910-45, Paintings from Illinois Collections, Illinois State Museum, Lockport, Illinois; Self-Portrait (Peasant Blouse), 1934, oil on panel
  
  2004: Jewish American Artists Club, Chicago, Illinois
  
  February 3 - April 2, 2006: Art in Chicago, Resisting Regionalism, Transforming Modernism, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Self-Portrait (Peasant Blouse), 1934, oil on panel
  
  ?-May 15, 2015: Realism to Abstractionism: Tennessee Painting 1920 to 1970, Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, Tennessee
  
  The Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, New York
  
  The American Institute of Graphic Arts, New York, New York
  
  The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
  
  The Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  
  Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
  
  The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
  
  Connecticut Academy of the Fine Arts, Hartford, Connecticut
  
  Indiana Society of Printmakers, Indianapolis, Indiana
  
  Laguna Beach Art Association, Laguna Beach, California
  
  Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
  
  Mandel Brothers Department Store Galleries, Chicago, Illinois
  
  The Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York
  
  Mississippi Art Association, Jackson, Mississippi
  
  Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, California
  
  Oklahoma Art Center
  
  The Print Club of Albany, Albany, New York
  
  Riverside Museum, New York, New York
  
  Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
  
  The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
  
  University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
  
  Wichita Art Association, Wichita, Kansas
  
  The Wilmington Society of Fine Arts, Wilmington, Delaware
  
   
• Collections Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, Illinois
  
  Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Elgin Academy, Elgin, Illinois
  
  Elgin State Hospital, Elgin, Illinois
  
  Falconer School, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Funston School, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee
  
  McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
  
  Marine Hospital, Cedarville, Louisiana
  
  National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
  
  New York Public Library, New York, New York
  
  Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
  
  Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
  
  South Bend Art Association
  
  Spertus Museum of Judaica, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
  
  Tennessee State Museum
  
  Union League Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  John Vanderpoel Collection
  
  Washington School, Maywood, Illinois
  
  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
• Publications Bulliet, C.J. "Artists of Chicago, Past and Present: No. 74 Fritzi Brod," Chicago Daily News, August 1, 1936.  online Hunt, Jean S. "Fritzi Schermer Brod," Walking with Women Through Chicago History II, p. 30 Perlman, Edon Juron, "Fritzi Schermer Brod," in Rima Lunin Schultz and Adele Hast, eds. Women Building Chicago 1790-1990: A Biographical Dictionary. University of Indiana Press, 2001.

  Seaton, Elizabeth Gaed. Paths to the Press: Printmaking and American Women Artists, 1910-1960. Mariana Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, 2006

• Memberships American Color Print Society
  
  The Artists League of the Midwest
  
  Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Chicago Society of Artists, Chicago, Illinois
  
  The Chicago Woman's Salon
  
  No-Jury Society, Chicago, Illinois [vice-president]
  
  Philadelphia Water Club, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Awards 1937: bronze medal, Chicago Society of Artists, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1938: silver medal, Chicago Society of Artists, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1944: one of 50 best prints, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Woman Asleep, 1940, lithograph
  
  1945: third prize, The Chicago Newspaper Guild
  
  1948: honorable mention, Joslyn Memorial Museum, Omaha, Nebraska; lithograph
• Archive(s) Archives of American Art: Fritz Brod Papers (1932-1977), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
• Other Occupation(s) textile designer in Prague and Chicago
  
  decorative painting for the Balaban and Katz movie theaters throughout Chicago
  
  published Decorative Design, Pitman Publishing Corp., 1958; 200 Motifs and Designs, 1945, and Flowers in Nature and Design, 1947 and Flowers to Color
• Biography Born into a wealthy Jewish family.  Daughter of Siegfried Schermer (Sephardic Jew) and Auguste Schermer (from a prosperous family of brewers and farmers); sister of Anton Schermer and Magdalena Schermer.  Her mother dabbled in decorative paitning of china and fans