Fred Staloff - Origins of a Modernist

Fred Staloff was born in New Jersey in 1924 and died in 2019. He was attending the Newark College of Engineering when World War II changed his plans, and he joined the army in 1943. Initially, Staloff was assigned to continue studies at the University of California at Los Angeles, but before long found himself participating in the invasion of the Philippine Islands and Okinawa. Discharged from the army in 1946, he found it difficult to reintegrate himself in previous plans and activities. As the outlines of a second major historical event, the Holocaust, emerged from the war, his cynicism became acute. He would resolve this dilemma by pursuing a career in the arts.