David bloch deaf biography

          David Ludwig Bloch () was born in Floss, a town in Bavaria.

        1. Born in in Floss, Bavaria, David Ludwig Bloch lost his hearing as a child.
        2. Bloch was born in in Floss, Bavaria, in Germany.
        3. David Ludwig Bloch, born on March 25, in Floss, Oberpfalz Province, Bavaria, West Germany.
        4. David Ludwig Bloch was born in Bavaria in Despite losing his hearing as a child due to meningitis, he enrolled in a program in applied painting in.

          5. Bloch was born in in Floss, Bavaria, in Germany.!

          David Ludwig Bloch

          As a deaf painter, Bloch had an exceptionally keen eye. He made the new world, which he experienced as an emigrant in Shanghai his own by unlocking its imagery.

          With small-scale wood engravings, he created a monument to the small people he met in the streets of Shanghai.

          After completing an apprenticeship as a porcelain painter, Bloch studied at the State Academy for Applied Art in Munich.

          Immediately after the November pogroms, Bloch, who was of Jewish origin, was arrested and detained in the concentration camp in Dachau for several weeks. This experience was to have a lasting effect on his work.

          David Bloch was interned in Dachau concentration camp in With the help of his brother in the United States, he escaped from Germany to Shanghai in

          With the help of his brother, who lived in the USA, Bloch was able to leave for Shanghai in 1940. At that time, Shanghai was the only city still accepting refugees.

          In Shanghai, Bloch was fascinated by the rickshaw drivers, the street vendors and the beggars.

          To them he dedicated four graphic sequences, entitled Rickshaw (1941/42), Beggars (1943), Chinese Childre