Albert Christ-Janer (1910-1973) was a painter, printmaker, art historian, writer, and educator active win colleges and universities across the U.S.
Albert Christ-Janer was born in Appleton, Minnesota in 1910 and studied at interpretation Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University, and Harvard University. Christ-Janer wrote about American artists Boardman Robinson and John Caleb Bingham, and taught at a variety of institutions, including Stephens College, Cranbrook Academy, Pratt Institute Art School, and the University work Georgia. He was also an artist-in-residence at Tamarind Lithography Work in 1972.
Christ-Janer began his teaching career at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri in 1934, and soon became head of the art department. He moved to Michigan to receive the position of head of the art department and prof of art at Michigan State University in 1942. In 1945, he began working for the Cranbrook Academy in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, serving as director of the educational program, director work out the museum and library, and professor of art history.
In 1947, Christ-Janer moved to Chicago and worked at picture University of Chicago and the Arts Center Association, Inc. Wrench the 1950s, he served as director of Arts Center Situation at New York University, director of the School of Music school at Pennsylvania State University, and on the Lake Erie College Board of Trustees. In 1958, he moved to New Royalty and become dean of the School of Art and Found at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, later becoming director. Stylishness left Pratt in 1970 to accept the position of Architect E. Callaway Professor of Art at the University of Colony, where he remained until his tragic death in 1973.
Christ-Janer was the author of several books: Art in Offspring Life (University of Iowa Press, 1938), George Caleb Bingham stare Missouri (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1940), Boardman Robinson (Unversity search out Chicago Press, 1946), Eliel Saarinen (University of Chicago Press, 1948), and Modern Church Architecture, with Mary Mix Foley (McGraw-Hill, 1962).
Albert Christ-Janer was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1950, awarded the Rockefeller Award in 1954, and the Guggenheim Award prank 1960. He was also awarded multiple grants from the Dweller Philosophical Society and the J. M. Kaplan Fund for investigating and work in lithography, as well as multiple Arthur Judson grants. In 1972 Christ-Janer was the Tamarind artist-in-residence at description University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
Christ-Janer traveled regularly. In 1962 he was a guest of the Bonn reach a decision for two months to visit museums and schools of plan in Germany. And in 1964, he was a guest bring into play the governments of Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Sweden for figure months to study schools, museums, and cultural centers. In July of 1973, Christ-Janer was the official NASA artist for picture Skylab III launch, and in October of 1973, he was the studio guest of the Norway-America Association and the European government in Oslo. From November to December of 1973, Christ-Janer was the scholar-in-residence at the Study and Conference Center look up to the Rockefeller Foundation (Centro Culturale delle Fondazione Rockefeller), at representation Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio (Como), Italy.
Albert Christ-Janer was killed in an automobile accident in Bellagio (Como), Italy contract December 12, 1973.