Hyman Bloom
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| Born |
Hyman Melamed August 18, 1913 Brunavišķi, Latvia |
| Died | August 26, 2009 (aged 96) Nashua, NH, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Harvard University |
| Known for | Painting |
| Spouse(s) | Nina Bohlen (1954-1961) Stella Caralis (1978-2009) |
Hyman Bloom (August 18, 1913 – August 26, 2009) was a Latvian-born American painter. His work was influenced by his Jewish heritage and Eastern religions as well as by artists including Altdorfer, Grünewald, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Blake, Bresdin, Ensor and Soutine. Many of his works feature macabre subjects such as corpses and autopsy scenes based on his visits to a morgue as well as influences including Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (1632) and Chaim Soutine's Carcass of Beef (1925), and have modern-day comparisons to Damien Hirst's dissected animal sculptures. Bloom's still life paintings featuring 19th-century Amphora pottery can be seen as modern-day vanitas paintings. His drawings and paintings of the Lubec, Maine woods and his underwater seascapes explore the relationship between the natural and spiritual realms.
Bloom was a key figure in the Boston Expressionist school.
Hyman Bloom (né Melamed) was born into an orthodox Jewish family in the tiny Jewish village of Brunavišķi in what is now Latvia, then part of the Russian Empire. He was one of six children born to Joseph and Anna Melamed. His father was a leather worker. Brunavišķi was a poor village in an area torn by civil unrest, where Jews lived in fear of persecution. The family emigrated to the United States in 1920, joining the two eldest sons, Samuel and Morris, in Boston. By that time the two brothers had changed their family name to Bloom and started their own leather business. The extended family lived in a three-room tenement apartment in Boston's West End.
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