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Henry Rox

Henry Rox, born Heinrich Rosenberg (* March 18, 1899 in Berlin; † July 14, 1967 in South Hadley in Massachusetts, USA) was a German-American artist, sculptor and photographer.

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Life Work Exhibitions (selection, exhibitions with sculpture, if photography, then shown) Other group exhibitions Works Publications of photographs (selection) Books

Life Henry Rox was born in Berlin as the third child of the textile merchant Gustav Rosenberg[1] and his wife Zippora. After attending school at the Hohenzollern-Gymnasium Berlin-Schöneberg (today: Gustav-Langenscheidt-Schule) until graduating from high school in 1917. He was a participant in World War I on the Western Front (1917/18) and received the Iron Cross II Class. From 1920 he studied art history at the University of Berlin, sculpture at the School of Arts and Crafts Berlin-Charlottenburg, and attended the sculpture class at the Académie Julian in Paris. In 1933 he attended a (private) photography school in Berlin. In 1927 he married Charlotte Fleck, after which they went by the names Heinz and Lotte Rosenberg-Fleck. In 1934 they both left Germany, lived in London for four years and changed their names to Henry and Lotte Rox. In 1938 they emigrated to New York, and from 1939 Henry Rox worked as Lecturer in Sculpture and Art History at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, which admitted only women. In 1948 he became Assistant Professor there, and Henry and Lotte Rox were granted American citizenship. In 1954 he was named Professor of Art and received a Guggenheim Fellowship to travel to Europe. In 1964, Rox became professor emeritus; he died in South Hadley in 1967.

Work Henry Rox created sculptural works in terracotta, wood and metal first in Berlin (as Heinrich Rosenberg-Fleck)and then from 1940 in the USA. He created representations of people with portraits,[2] half-figures and whole persons.[3][4] The style was realistic with light expressionistic forms. His works were exhibited throughout America and received awards. Another form of his artistic activity were humanized fruit scenes (fruit-sculptures), which were first built in the studio and then photographed by him.[5] These black and white and also color photographs were described as humorous and esprit, he was able to illustrate several (children/youth) books with them. The photographs were published in well-known magazines and illustrated magazines mainly in America. For a musical film (Strike up the Band, 1940) with Judy Garland and Mike Rooney, he constructed an entire animated fruit orchestra. Henry Rox was a sculpture instructor at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley for over 25 years and was able to mentor female students artistically, including performance and video artist Joan Jonas.[6] The Cologne-based photographer and collector Wolfgang Vollmer has been particularly committed to rediscovering the photographic work of Henry Rox:[7] he researched his life and work and administers part of his estate.[8] In 2021, the Fotohof (Salzburg) also showed works by Henry Rox as part of an exhibition by Wolfgang Vollmer and published a book of photographic works.[9] Vollmer's work was also exhibited at the Fotohof (Salzburg).

Exhibitions (selection, exhibitions with sculpture, if photography, then shown) 1929 Herbst-Ausstellung, Preußische Akademie der Künste, Berlin 1933 Lebendige deutsche Kunst, 3. Teil, Cassirer / Flechtheim, Berlin 1934 German-Jewish Artist´s work, Parsons´ Galleries, London 1940 Henry Rox, Dwight Art Memorial, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA 1942 Contemporary American Sculpture, New York 1943 American Sculpture of our Time, Buchholz Gallery Curt Valentin, New York Springfield Art League Members, Springfield Museum of Fine Art, MA 1945 Recent Work by American Sculptors, Buchholz Gallery, New York Photo-Sculpture, State Library Gallery, Concord, NH Henry Rox – Photo-Sculpture, Art Headquarters Gallery, NY, (44 Photographs) 1946 Sculptures Henry Rox, Kleemann Gallery, New York 1947 Henry Rox, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, (17 Sculptures, 22 Photographs) Sculptures Henry Rox, De Young Museum, San Francisco 1948 Contemporary Sculpture and Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY Sculpture at the Crossroads, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, (Group exhibition with sculptures by Barlach, Brancusi, Calder, Kolbe, Lehmbruck, Maillol, Marcks, Moore, Rox, Zadkine and others; Curator Henry Rox)[10] ; Photo-Sculpture, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA (Photographs) 1949 13th National Ceramic Exhibition, Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, NY Sculpture since Rodin, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut (Group exhibition with 34 works by Archipenko, Barlach, Brancusi, Calder, Kolbe, Lehmbruck, Lipchitz, Maillol, Marcks, Moore, Rodin, Rox, Zadkine, among others.) Ceramics Exhibition, The Wichita Art Association, Wichita, Kansas 1950 The Eye Listens, Dwight Art Memorial, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA 1951 American Sculpture 1951 Metropolitan Museum of Fine Arts, NY 1952 National Academy of Design, NY 1953 Boston Arts Festival Henry Rox Exhibition, April 1953 Fitchburg Art Museum, MA 1 1956 Annual Show Audubon Artists, National Academy Galleries, NY Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY 1959 Henry Rox, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, (30 Scuptures, 33 Photographs) 1962 Summer Exhibitions, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA, (a. a. Kingman, Magritte, Rox, Yovan, Nolan) 1966 Henry Rox – Sculpture Retrospective, Dwight Art Memorial, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA[11] 2021 Henry Rox Revue, Fotohof, Salzburg

Other group exhibitions Royal Academy of Arts, London; Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, Glasgow; Salon d´Automne, Paris; National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York; Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, MA; University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI; Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, Museo Internationale delle Ceramiche, Faenza, RA, Italien Works James Laver, Henry Rox (Illu.), Tommy Apple and his Adventures in Banana-Land, Jonathan Cape Ltd., London, 1935 James Laver, Henry Rox (Illu.), Tommy Apple and Peggy Pear, Jonathan Cape Ltd. London, 1936 Henry Rox u. Margaret Fisher, Banana Circus, G.P. Putman`s Sons, New York, 1940 Henry Rox u. Margaret Fisher, Banana Circus, Hammond, Hammond & Comp. Ltd, London, 1943 Henry Rox u. Margaret Fisher, Banana Circus (Hebräische Version), Oded Beri, 1982 Movie Strike up the Band, 1940, mit Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney, M.G.M.-Musical-Produktion

Publications of photographs (selection) LIFE, US, 11. December 1939, „Speaking of Pictures ... These Musicians are made of fruit“, p. 12–15. LIFE, US, 18. November 1940, „Speaking of Pictures ... these are Table-Top Photographs“, p. 12–14. Vogue, US, 1. June 1943, „Summer rich, in vitamins...“, S. 68–69. CORONET, US, December 1943, „Lighthearted Folk of Lettuce Lane“, p. 55–58. Parade, US, 17. December 1944, „Sculpture you can eat“, p. 18–21. The New York Times Magazine, 15. September 1946, "Deubling in Fruit". (4 × sculpture, 4 × photography) European Stars & Strips, Darmstadt, 12. June 1948, „Fruit Sculptor“, S. 2. The Young Companion, Shanghai, February 1948, „These Musicians Are Made of Fruit“, p. 40. # HEUTE, Nr. 65, Deutschland, 1. August 1948, „Rhapsodie in Obst“, p. 22. Graphis, Zürich/Switzerland, Nr. 63/1956, „Henry Rox“, p. 58–63. This Week Magazin/Los Angeles Times, US, 14. April 1957, „Art a la Carte“, Titel, p. 26–27. Family Cicle, US, 2/1958, „Mardi Gras Meal Makers“, title a. p. 44–49. Die besten Fotos aus LIFE, 1974, „Was Bilder betrifft: Eßbare Kunst“, 4 photographs from LIFE 1939, p. 72/73.

Books Henry Rox Revue, Wolfgang Vollmer, FOTOHOF edition, 2020 ISBN 978-3-902993-97-7 Belege[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten] ↑ G. Rosenberg – Veikkos-archiv. retrived at 30. Nov. 2020. ↑ Friedrich und Maria Dessauer | Sammlungen an der Goethe-Universität. retrived at 24. Nov. 2020. ↑ Collections Database. retrived at 24. Nov. 2020. ↑ Young Monk. retrived at 24. November 2020 (englisch). ↑ KulturAgentur - Henry Rox Revue. retrived at 10. January 2021. ↑ 5 Questions for: Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon Joan Jonas. In: Whitechapel Gallery. retrived at 24. Nov. 2020. ↑ Ausstellungstext Fotohof Ausstellung ↑ Daniel Kalt. Bissfeste Bilder. In: Die Presse – Schaufenster, 21. Jänner 2021. Link. ↑ http://www.fotohof.net/content.php?id=29&buchid=1024 ↑ Sculpture at the Crossroads. retrived at 24. Nov.r 2020. ↑ Dwight Art Memorial (Mount Holyoke College): Henry Rox: sculpture retrospective, May 5 through June 7, 1966. Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA 1966 (worldcat.org [retrived at 24. November 2020]).