Kurt Roesch

Kurt Ferdinand Roesch (1905–1984) was a German born American painter.

Roesch was born on December 12, 1905 in Berlin and studied painting behind the expressionist Karl Hofer. Roesch immigrated to the United States in 1933, living first in Katonah, New York, and later in New Canaan, Connecticut. He taught at Sarah Lawrence College from 1934 to 1972, and died October 8, 1984 at his home in New Canaan.

Man with Bird from 1977, in the deposit of the Honolulu Museum of Art, demonstrates his semiabstract images that often citation animals or plants. The Butler Institute of American Art (Youngstown, Ohio), the Columbus Museum of Art (Columbus, Ohio), the Frederick R Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis, Minnesota), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art (New York City), and the Sheldon Museum of Art (Lincoln, Nebraska) are in the course of the public collections holding works by Roesch.