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Oscar Florianus Bluemner (German, American, 1867 to 1938)
Oscar Bluemner Bluemner was born near Hanover, Germany, he studied painting and architecture at the Royal Academy of Design in Berlin in the early 1880s. He then traveled to America where he became one of the leading American Modernists and the subject of an important monographic retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, from October 2005 through February 2006.
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Peter Robert Keil (German, born 1942)
Peter Robert Keil is one of the leading figures in the early German Neo-Expressionist movement. Keil moved from Poland to Germany as a young boy, following the death of his father. He is best known for his dynamic use of vibrant colors, harmonius forms and vigorous lines. As a child he was intrigued by the work of Pablo Picasso, and his playful images and bright colors which offered [...] Click here to continue reading.
Carl Georg Adolph Hasenpflug (German, 1802 to 1858)
Working in the Romantic style, Hasenpflug painted architectural views, often of German cathedrals or ruins during winter. Born to a Berlin shoemaker, Hasenpflug studied with Carl William Gropius and attended the Berlin Academy. He grew very popular during his lifetime for his evocative and highly detailed works and, along with Eduard Gaertner, Johann Erdmann Hummel, and Johann Heinrich Hintze. He is recognized as one of the [...] Click here to continue reading.
Johann Mongels Culverhouse (Dutch/American, 1820 to 1891)
Born in Holland in 1825, Culverhouse moved to the United States in 1849 where he painted in the classic Dutch genre style. Having spent much of his life working in the United States, he exhibited at the National Academy of Design, the Brooklyn Art Association, the American Art-Union, the Boston Athenaeum and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. His work is included in public and private collections [...] Click here to continue reading.
Kate Freeman Clark (American, 1875 to 1957)
Kate Freeman Clark was the daughter of Vicksburg attorney and Cary Freeman Clark, a descendant of the politically prominent Walthall family of Holly Springs. After her father’s death in 1885, Kate and her mother lived in the Walthall family home, known as the “Freeman Place”. In 1891, Cary Freeman Clark enrolled her daughter in the Gardiner Institute, a finishing school for girls, in order to broaden Kate’s [...] Click here to continue reading.
Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant (French, 1845 to 1902)
Jean-Joseph-Benjamin Constant is most well known for his romantic visions of the Orient. His loose brushwork and rich palette, as seen in the above, show influence of Eugene Delacroix (1798 to 1863). Constant traveled to Morocco in 1872 with French ambassador and painter, Georges Clarin (1843 to 1919). Throughout his travels he acquired many Islamic artifacts, carpets, and garments which became props in the Orientalist paintings [...] Click here to continue reading.
Annie Hurlburt Jackson (American, 1877 to 1960)
Annie Hurlburt Jackson was a talented miniaturist based in Minneapolis. She trained with a variety of painters–most of them landscape specialists–including Eric Pape, Charles Woodbury, John F. Murphy, Charles Hawthorne, and Eliot O’Hara, and exhibited regularly with the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters, earning a medal there in 1925. Her work was awarded a gold medal at the Sesquicentennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1926; a prize in [...] Click here to continue reading.
John Philip Falter (American 1910 to 1982)
A classic realist, John Falter created unforgettable scenes of pure Americana, often showcased in his covers for the Saturday Evening Post, or his illustrations for books published by Reader’s Digest and Macmillan Books. He left behind a rich legacy of art at his passing in 1982. A true perfectionist, when Falter was asked to look back over his career he remarked that he never painted a painting [...] Click here to continue reading.
George Sloane (American, 1864 to 1942)
George Sloane was born in Salem, Massachusetts and trained initially at the Boston Museum School, where he met his future wife, the landscape painter Marion Parkhurst (1875 to 1955). He was strongly influenced by the exquisite cabinet paintings of Bavarian-born artist, Ignatz Marcel Gaugengigl, who achieved great fame in Boston during the last quarter of the nineteenth century when he became known as “The American Meisonnier.” Indeed, Gaugengigl [...] Click here to continue reading.
Peter Gerardus Van Os (Dutch, 1776 to 1839)
Peter Gerardus Van Os was a member of an influential Dutch family of still life painters that included father Jan (1744 to 1808), brother Georgius (1782 to 1861), sister Maria (1780-1862) and son Pieter (1808 to 1892). His mother was the portrait painter Susanna de la Croix, daughter of French painter Pierre Federic de la Croix. Van Os received his early artistic training in his father’s [...] Click here to continue reading.
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