Anna Maria of Phul

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Anna Maria von Phul, 1817

Anna Maria von Phul (1786–1823) was an American artist who used watercolor to illustrate local Creole culture, including architecture, clothing, hairstyles, and other aspects of daily life.

origin

Anna Maria von Phul came from the Würtemberger line of old, in the Brandenburg -based noble family of Pfuel . Her father, Johann Willhelm von Phull (1739–1793) sold his manor Mollberg, located south of Höchstädt on the Danube , and in 1764 emigrated to Lancaster , in the province of Pennsylvania . Johann Wilhelm (now William) served as an officer on the staff of George Washington and acquired the Bel Air Plantation on the Mississippi , near Baton Rouge , Louisiana . In 1775 he married Catherine Graff († 1810).

Life

Watercolor painting of a boy in a castor hat in St. Louis, by Anna Maria von Phul, 1818

Anna Maria von Phul was born in Philadelphia in 1786 . After her father's death in 1793, she moved to Kentucky with her widowed mother and siblings. There she studied French at a women's academy in Lexington and was taught drawing and watercolor by George and Mary Beck. In the early nineteenth century drawing was practiced by many of the elite young women, but von Phul showed a particular talent and was encouraged by her teachers and family to continue her artistic studies. Despite her talent, von Phul never seriously pursued a career in the arts and chose to spend more time with her family. She never did her art professionally and only drew in her spare time. Most of her drawings and watercolors were created as gifts for her friends and family.

After her mother's death in 1810, Anna Maria lived with her sister, Sarah, who was recently widowed. Around 1817/18 Phul traveled to her brother Henry von Phul (1784–1874) in St. Louis and also visited her sister in the neighboring city of Edwardsville , Illinois . Between 1817 and 1821, von Phul created most of her remaining works of art. The sketches and watercolors that were produced after 1821 have been lost. Anna Maria von Phul died on July 28, 1823 while visiting her sister in Edwardsville. An obituary was published in the Edwardsville Spectator .

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Watercolor by Anna Maria von Phul, "The View of a Cave, 2 Miles from St. Louis, Missouri Territory", 1818

Anna Maria von Phul's early sketches and watercolors are largely limited to landscapes and silhouettes. Her later works show various aspects of local Creole life in the St. Louis area, which later earned her the title "The Eyes of the Missouri Territory". Her watercolors are small and finely painted, but offer important glimpses into the Creole life of St. Louis in the early nineteenth century. The images are historically important mainly because they depict the colors of Creole culture. Her works of art include landscapes, buildings, furniture, clothing, jewelry, hairstyles, horse-drawn carriages and people who do typical everyday activities. Some of their work shows the people of Creole culture as a working class. She filled several sketchbooks with her work, which was later rediscovered by her descendants in 1953 and donated to the Missouri Historical Society . In 2001, Cathy Johnson published a biography about Anna Maria von Phul.

literature

  • Herman Boehm de Bachellé Seebold: Old Louisiana Plantation Homes And Family Trees. Pelican Publishing, 1971, ISBN 978-1-4556-0989-5 , pp. 80-81.
  • Lawrence O. Christensen: Dictionary of Missouri Biography. University of Missouri Press, Columbia and London, 1991, pp. 776-777.
  • Katharine T. Corbett: In Her Place: A Guide to St. Louis Women's History. Missouri History Museum, 1999, ISBN 978-1-883982-30-0 , pp. 32-33.
  • William E. Foley: The Genesis of Missouri: From Wilderness Outpost to Statehood. University of Missouri Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-8262-6053-6 , pp. 268, 282, 337.
  • Charles Van Ravenswaay: St. Louis: An Informal History of the City and Its People, 1764-1865. Missouri History Museum, 1991, ISBN 978-0-252-01915-9 , p. 235.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Lawrence O. Christensen: Dictionary of Missouri Biography . University of Missouri Press, Columbia and London 1991, pp. 776-7, (accessed June 7, 2016).
  2. ↑ Katharine T. Corbett: In Her Place: A Guide to St. Louis Women's History . Missouri History Museum, 1999, ISBN 978-1-883982-30-0 , pp. 32-33.
  3. ^ Charles Van Ravenswaay: Anna Maria Von Phul . In: Bulletin of the Missouri Historical Society . 10, No. 3, 1954, ISSN  0026-6590 , pp. 367-384.
  4. ↑ a b Herman Boehm de Bachellé Seebold: Old Louisiana Plantation Homes And Family Trees . Pelican Publishing, 1971, ISBN 978-1-4556-0989-5 , pp. 80-.
  5. ↑ Katharine T. Corbett: In Her Place: A Guide to St. Louis Women's History . Missouri Historical Society Press, St. Louis 1999, pp. 32-3 (accessed June 7, 2016).
  6. ↑ Katharine T. Corbett: In Her Place: A Guide to St. Louis Women's History . Missouri Historical Society Press, St. Louis 1999, pp. 32-3 (accessed June 7, 2016).
  7. ^ William E. Foley: The Genesis of Missouri: From Wilderness Outpost to Statehood . University of Missouri Press, March 12, 2014, ISBN 978-0-8262-6053-6 , pp. 268, 282, 337.
  8. ↑ Greta: Anna Maria von Phul . August 28, 2015. Retrieved September 11, 2016.
  9. ↑ Cross-collection search: Anna Maria von Phul . Retrieved June 8, 2016.
  10. ^ A Timely Find: Pieces of St. Louis History Uncovered During City's Anniversary Year . Retrieved September 11, 2016.
  11. ^ Charles Van Ravenswaay: St. Louis: An Informal History of the City and Its People, 1764-1865 . Missouri History Museum, 1991, ISBN 978-0-252-01915-9 , p. 235.
  12. ^ From Graphics / Fine Arts Press: Anna Maria von Phul . Archived from the original on August 8, 2016. Retrieved June 8, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Phul, Anna Maria from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Phull, Anna Maria von; Pfuel, Anna Maria von; Pfuhl, Anna Maria von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1786
DATE OF DEATH 1823