Anton Biester

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Anton beasts , even Anthony Biester (* 26. August 1837 in Kleve , Rheinprovinz ; † 26. March 1917 in Madison , Ohio ), was a German-American portrait and landscape painter of Klever and Düsseldorf School .

Life

Biester learned to paint in the school of the Dutch landscape painter Barend Cornelis Koekkoek, who lives in Kleve . He then attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where Oswald Achenbach was his teacher. In March 1871 Biester emigrated to the United States with his wife Elise and their young son Oswald, who later became a fresco painter and interior decorator . First he settled in Covington (Kentucky) . In 1872 he moved to Cincinnati . There he was one of the most prominent artists in the city. He was a member of the Cincinnati Art Club . In 1871 he took part in the Cincinnati Industrial Exposition , and in the following years in other exhibitions in the United States, from about 1897 to 1902 at the Art Institute of Chicago .

literature

  • George C. Groce, David H. Wallace (Eds.): The New-York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 . Yale University Press, New Haven 1957, p. 48
  • Peter Hastings Falk: Who was Who in American Art . Madison 1985, ISBN 0-932087-00-0 , p. 54
  • Peter C. Merrill: German Immigrant Artists in America. A Biographical Dictionary . Scarecrow Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0810832664 , p. 20

Works (selection)

Wooded summer landscape
  • Romantic forest landscape , 1854
  • Partie am Waldbach , 1859
  • Stormy weather in a landscape near Kleve , 1866
  • View of Kleve with the Schwanenburg
  • Wooded summer landscape
  • Portrait of the Archbishop Purcell
  • Portrait of Bishop Henni

Web links

Commons : Anthony Biester  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to other sources, he died in 1836. According to a death report in the American Art News , Anton Biester died on March 26, 1917 at the age of 80. Accordingly, his date of birth would be before March 26, 1837. - Cf. Anton Biester . In: American Art News , April 7, 1917 issue
  2. ^ Mary Sayre Haverstock, Jeannette Mahoney Vance, Brian L. Meggitt (Eds.): Artists in Ohio, 1787-1900. A Biographical Dictionary . Kent State University Press, Kent / Ohio 2000, ISBN 0-87338-616-7 , p. 82 ( Google Books )
  3. ↑ Andreas Daams: A Romantic in the New World . Article from September 27, 2014 in the derwesten.de portal , accessed on August 20, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Beasts, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beasts, Anthony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American portrait painter and landscape painter from the Klever and Düsseldorf Schools
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleve , Rhine Province
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1917
Place of death Madison , Ohio