Bert Van Bork

[2] There Van Bork attended classes taught by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, one of the four founders of the German Expressionist art group “Die Brücke”.

Following the second World War Van Bork continued his studies at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig as well as Dresden.

During this time he produced the critically acclaimed woodcut series “Night Over Germany”, marking a personal documentation of the German post-war experience.

In 1954 Van Bork emigrated from Germany to the United States, settling in Chicago with his wife whom he had met in Leipzig, Bert continued to express his German Expressionism roots.

Then in 1966 Van Bork paid homage to his roots in German expressionism, holding a gallery at The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago in 1966.