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Georges Bloch
Swiss, (1901–1984)
Georges Bloch (1901-1984), a textile industrialist in Zurich, collected Pablo Picasso’s prints from the mid-1920s onwards. But he only got to know the artist in 1953 after being introduced by Bernhard Geiser, the editor of the first catalogue raisonné of Picasso’s prints (Picasso peintre-graveur. Catalogue illustré de l’oeuvre gravé et lithographié 1899-1931. Bern: Eigenverlag, 1933) Geiser himself was one of the first collectors of Picasso’s prints. in Switzerland.
Bloch and Picasso soon became friends. By the time of the artists death the Zurich collector had around 2000 works in very different printing techniques such as linocut, woodcut, etching, copperplate engraving, dry point, aquatint, and lithography. He combined collect- ing and connoisseurship, meticulously building up his collection since the mid-1950s with his profound knowledge of printmaking (of- ten purchasing first impressions). This collection was the basis for a cataloguee raisonné of his prints (Pablo Picasso: catalogue de l’oeuvre gravé et lithographié), which Bloch had edited 1968–1979 and published in four volumes by Kornfeld & Klipstein in Bern. In 1972, the Gottfried Keller Stiftung (GKS) received George Bloch’s gift of 473 works, roughly a quarter of his collection. This was supplemented by a total of 39 additional works in two lots in 1979/80 and 1981/82. Bloch arranged that a total of over 500 prints be made over to Swit- zerland in order to have a substantial part of his collection repre- sented there. The GKS had the holdings of over 500 sheets deposited in eight Swiss museums. Besides in the Kunstmuseum Bern, these prints are also kept in the Kunsthaus Zürich, the Kunstmuseum Basel, the Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, the Musée d’art et d’histoire in Ge- neva, the ETH print collection, the Musée Jenisch Vevey, and the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen. The only stipulation he made was that every five years the museums must, by turns, present the gift or part of it to the public in a show.
Swiss, (1901–1984)
Georges Bloch (1901-1984), a textile industrialist in Zurich, collected Pablo Picasso’s prints from the mid-1920s onwards. But he only got to know the artist in 1953 after being introduced by Bernhard Geiser, the editor of the first catalogue raisonné of Picasso’s prints (Picasso peintre-graveur. Catalogue illustré de l’oeuvre gravé et lithographié 1899-1931. Bern: Eigenverlag, 1933) Geiser himself was one of the first collectors of Picasso’s prints. in Switzerland.
Bloch and Picasso soon became friends. By the time of the artists death the Zurich collector had around 2000 works in very different printing techniques such as linocut, woodcut, etching, copperplate engraving, dry point, aquatint, and lithography. He combined collect- ing and connoisseurship, meticulously building up his collection since the mid-1950s with his profound knowledge of printmaking (of- ten purchasing first impressions). This collection was the basis for a cataloguee raisonné of his prints (Pablo Picasso: catalogue de l’oeuvre gravé et lithographié), which Bloch had edited 1968–1979 and published in four volumes by Kornfeld & Klipstein in Bern. In 1972, the Gottfried Keller Stiftung (GKS) received George Bloch’s gift of 473 works, roughly a quarter of his collection. This was supplemented by a total of 39 additional works in two lots in 1979/80 and 1981/82. Bloch arranged that a total of over 500 prints be made over to Swit- zerland in order to have a substantial part of his collection repre- sented there. The GKS had the holdings of over 500 sheets deposited in eight Swiss museums. Besides in the Kunstmuseum Bern, these prints are also kept in the Kunsthaus Zürich, the Kunstmuseum Basel, the Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, the Musée d’art et d’histoire in Ge- neva, the ETH print collection, the Musée Jenisch Vevey, and the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen. The only stipulation he made was that every five years the museums must, by turns, present the gift or part of it to the public in a show.
Artist Objects
Picasso, 347: Volume I and II 1986.146