| John Koch | ||
| Birth Date: August 18, 1909 |
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| Death Date: April 19, 1978 Artist Gallery |
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| John Koch, born in Toledo, Ohio, is best known as a romantic artist of fashionable Manhattan and New England mansion dwellers.
Koch attended two summers at the artists’ colony at Provincetown, Massachusetts and then traveled to Paris where he spent four years painting on his own, never under a teacher instruction. Koch’s paintings are characterized by a soft, misty surface. He created luminous effects by under painting in egg tempera and glazing with oils. This rich lustrous appearance is reminiscent of the work of seventeenth-century Dutch master Vermeer.
The people who appear on his canvases were a part of the Koch’s everyday lives: Mrs. Koch, her students, and their close friends were also subjects.
Suffering a stroke at the age of 66 in 1975, he never adequately gained the use of his right hand and he quit painting. Then at the age of 69 he suffered another stroke, passing away in 1978.
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