[3] During 1930s, he worked as an assistant to sculptor Paul Manship in his studio in New York City.

He also created sculpture under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project.

[9] Cronbach taught sculpture at Adelphi College in Garden City, New York, from 1947 to 1961.

[8][10] He was one of 250 sculptors who exhibited in the 3rd Sculpture International held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the summer of 1949.

[11] Cronbach died in December 2001 in the city of San Miguel de Allende in Guanajuato, Mexico.