 From 1909 to 1921, Bloch lived and worked mainly in Germany, where he was associated with Der Blaue Reiter.After the end of World War I, Bloch returned to the United States, teaching at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for a year, and then accepting a Departmental Head position at the University of Kansas until his retirement in 1947.Albert Bloch died March 23, 1961, in Lawrence, Kansas.