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KARL SCHRAG   (1912-1995)
Schrag was born in Germany; he studied in Geneva and Paris before coming to this country in 1938. In New York he attended the Art Students League where he worked with Harry Sternberg. In the early 1940s he made prints with Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17 and in 1950 was made director of the Atelier. Throughout his life Schrag continued to live in New York and summer on Deer Isle, Maine.
Schrag taught at Brooklyn College and Cooper Union. His first retrospective was at the Brooklyn Museum in 1960 and his work is in numerous public institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Portland Museum of Art (Maine), the Arkansas Art Center, and the San Diego Museum of Art.


Blue Arches, 1979



The Tidal Wave, 1945



Bathing Kids, 1940



Wanderers, 1944



Garden in August, 1972



My Room - Bright Night, 1993