Manuel G. Silberger (American, 1898–1968)

b. 1898 — d. 1968

A commercial lithographer by trade, Manuel G. Silberger was active as a printmaker and portrait painter during the 1930s. Born in Bokovic, Hungary, the son of a merchant, Silberger received his first art training in Miskolz, Hungary before immigrating to America in 1921 to join his family in Cleveland. He attended night classes at the Huntington Polytechnic Institute, studying with Henry Keller and Paul Travis. From 1926 until his retirement in 1964, he was a lithographer at the Morgan Lithograph Company. He made lithographs and etchings for the Cleveland graphic arts project of the Works Progress Administration, 1936-37. Between 1939 and 1940 he was on the editorial board of Crossroads as well as a contributor. His prints and oil portraits were in the Annual May Shows of the Cleveland Museum of Art (1935-52), and he also participated in exhibitions in Dayton, Chicago, and New York. He never married and lived in Cleveland with his sister Tessie until his death. Transformations in Cleveland Art. (CMA, 1996), p. 237.