biography of Herb AACH (1923-1985)

Birth place: Cologne, Germany

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Painter, writer

Studied: Art Acad. Cologne, 1936-37; Pratt Inst., 1941-42; Stanford Univ., 1943-44; Escuela di Pintura y Escultura, Mexico, 1948-50; BM Art Sch., 1947-48; 1950-51.

Exhibited: WMAA, 1952; PAFA, 1955; Univ. Illinois Ann., 1961; Childe Hassam Purchase Fund, Acad. Arts & Letters, 1971; Color Forum/Austin, Univ. Texas, 1972; Jacques Seligmann Gal., NYC, 1970s.

Member: Color Forum (founder, board member); College AA; Artists Workshop Club; Intersoc. Color Council; Experiments in Art & Tech..

Work: BMFA; Everhart Mus., Scranton, PA; Birla Acad., Calcutta, India; Chase Coll.; William Penn Mem. Mus., Harrisburg, PA.

Comments: Special interests: all phases of color, phenomenology, perception, and fluorescence. Teaching: Pratt Inst. 1947-51, 1965-68; Brooklyn Mus.; Skowhegan Sch. Painting & Sculpture, 1969-70; asst. prof., Queens College, 1966-on. Publications: ed./translator, Goethe's Color Theory (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1971); contrib. ed., Journal of Color & Appearance, 1972; articles, Arts, Crafts Horizons.

Sources: WW73; L. Finkelstein, Color as System," Craft Horizon (1970). "

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