Karl Johann Joseph Tabéry

Karl Tabéry was born in Vienna, Austria, November 3rd, 1921. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, he traveled to Washington D.C. in 1950 and attended the Corcoran School of Art as a student and instructor for a time. Housed at the International Student House in Washington D.C., he met his future wife, Dorothy Sachiko Sakasegawa who was an administrator there. Over the ensuing years they lived in several mid-Atlantic states, eventually settling in the Boston area. He taught art at the Museum School in Boston for a time and over a four decade span was the head of art departments at Beaver Country Day and Roxbury Latin where by all accounts he was a wonderful and widely respected teacher. Further aspects of his life and the history which drove the art he created will be depicted in the blog associated with this site. Karl remained a citizen of Austria throughout his life. He passed away on July 4th, 1993 in Boston, Massachusetts.