Ilse Bischoff

Ilse Bischoff (1901–1990) was an American artist, book illustrator, and author. Best known for her gift in woodblock printing, she afterward painted in oils and casein and made graphite drawings. She remained firmly functioning to representational art throughout her life, choosing human figures for her main subjects during most of career and turning toward yet lifes toward the end. She illustrated many books, including two of which she was author. Family plenty allowed her to pursue the fused facets of her career clear of worries about necessary reception or the income that her performance would bring her. She nonetheless welcomed both the compliment that was truth to her art and writings and the concrete rewards they earned her.

She standard art training in New York City and Munich, traveled extensively in Europe for most of her life, and maintained studios at her homes in New York and Vermont. At the arrival of her career she won the top prize in the first annual exhibition of American block prints held by the Philadelphia Print Club, a folder she wrote mid-career won a reviewer's unchangeable praise, and, late in her career, the director of an art middle praised her "forthright marginal of natural subjects" and said her feat conveyed "the beauty, wit and charm of factual reality".