{{short description|American painter}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Julius Bloch | image = | caption = | occupation = Painter | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1888|5|12}} | birth_place = Kehl, Germany | death_date = {{death date and age|1966|8|22|1888|5|12}} | death_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States }}
'''Julius Thiengen Bloch''' (May 12, 1888 – August 22, 1966) was born in Kehl, Germany.
== Biography == His German Jewish family moved to the United States in 1893, settling in Philadelphia.<ref name="Schwarz">{{cite web |title=Julius Thiengen Bloch |url=http://www.schwarzgallery.com/artist/140/Julius-Thiengen-Bloch |website=Schwarz Gallery |access-date=3 February 2021}}</ref> A social realist painter, his work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/921455 |title=Julius Bloch |work=Olympedia |access-date=August 4, 2020}}</ref>
In 1934, Eleanor Roosevelt purchased his oil painting ''The Young Worker'' in an exhibition of the Public Works of Art Project at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., for President Franklin D. Roosevelt's executive offices.<ref name="Eisen">{{cite web |last1=Eisen |first1=Margaret |title=Julius Bloch: The Time Has Come |url=http://paheritage.wpengine.com/article/julius-bloch-time-has-come/ |website=Pennsylvania Heritage|date=1989|issue=Summer |access-date=3 February 2021}}</ref>
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