Benjamin Franklin Reinhart

Benjamin Franklin Reinhart (born August 29, 1829 in Waynesburg , Greene County , Pennsylvania , † May 3, 1885 in Philadelphia ) was an American genre , portrait and history painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Reinhart, the youngest of nine children of the couple Joseph and Sarah Smith Reinhart, received his first artistic training in Pittsburgh at the age of 15 . In 1847 he went to New York City , where he studied at the National Academy of Design . He spent the summers at this time in Hayesville (Ohio) , which he gave as his address at an exhibition in 1848. In 1850 he traveled to Europe for further training . He took private lessons for several years in Düsseldorf , an art center and place of study in the United States at that time particularly well-known for the New York Düsseldorf Gallery , before traveling home to the United States in 1853 after studying in Rome and Paris . He opened a portrait painting studio in New York City and toured the Midwest and the South . In 1858 he stayed in Georgetown , Kentucky .

From 1859 to 1861 he lived with the portrait painter Theodore Sidney Moïse (1808–1885) in New Orleans . An enthusiastic art critic praised Reinhart with the following words: “Those who are interested in the fine arts can spend an hour or two with much pleasure by paying a visit to this truly talented and accomplished young artist, whose rooms are located at the frame and picture gallery of Hoffman, on Canal Street […]. [Reinhart's] striking, lifelike resemblances and exquisite blending of colors with the delicate lights and shadows, proportions and effects, prove that, with a natural genius for art, he has also been an assiduous student, and his portraits may well be termed 'speaking 'pictures. "

Portrait of Southern General Joseph E. Johnston , 1860/1861, National Portrait Gallery Washington

After standard biographies he escaped the broken in April 1861 American Civil War by emigrating to London . According to newspaper reports, he stayed in New Orleans during the time he was painting a portrait of Southern General Joseph E. Johnston and served the Confederate States of America and their army . He is said to have fled to London only after the defeat of the southern states. There he was valued as a genre and portrait painter. He also worked for the Cause of the South and created a portrait of General Robert Edward Lee from a daguerreotype. He also emerged through portraits of the royal family and portraits of British nobles and writers, such as Alfred Tennyson and Thomas Carlyle .

He returned to the United States around 1868 and settled in New York City. He exhibited there at the National Academy of Design and became an associate of its member in 1871 .

Reinhart created portraits, genre pictures and histories in the style of the Düsseldorf School. His painting The Emigrant Train Bedding Down for the Night , created in 1867 and in the collection of the National Gallery of Art , achieved particular fame . His romantic-sentimental portraits of girls and scenes with children at play became popular. Some of his motifs were widely used in engravings and chromolithographs.

Reinhart was the uncle of the American painters Charles Stanley Reinhart (1844-1896) and Albert Grantley Reinhart (1854-1926).

literature

Reinhart, Benjamin Franklin . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 434.
Reinhart, Benjamin Franklin . In: Rossiter Johnson: The Biographical Dictionary of America . American Biographical Society, Boston 1909, Volume 9, p. 76.
Reinhart, Benjamin Franklin . In: Donald Ralph MacKenzie: Painters in Ohio, 1788-1860 . Dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1960, p. 235 ( online document ).
James F. Carr: Mantle Fielding's dictionary of American painters, sculptors and engravers . New York City 1965, p. 298.
Peter Hastings Falk: Who was Who in American Art . Sound View, Madison 1985, p. 511.
Lee M. Edwards: Domestic Bliss. Family Life in American Painting, 1840-1910 . The Hudson River Museum of Westchester, Yonkers / New York 1986, p. 118 ( Google Books ).
Reinhart, Benjamin Franklin . In: Sabine Morgen: The radiation of the Düsseldorf school to America in the 19th century. Düsseldorf paintings in America and American painters in Düsseldorf . Göttingen Contributions to Art History, Volume 2, Edition Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-76753-059-1 , p. 1113.

Web links

Commons : Benjamin Franklin Reinhart - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Reinhart, Benjamin Franklin, ANA , biography on the internetantiquegazette.com portal

Benjamin Franklin Reinhart , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )

Benjamin Franklin Reinhart , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de

BF Reinhart, died May 5, 1885 , website in the portal de. findagrave .com

Individual evidence

^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 2, p. 438
^ Estill Curtis Pennington: Lessons in Likeness. Portrait Painters in Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley, 1802-1920 . The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington / Kentucky 2011, ISBN 978-0-8131-2612-8 , p. 202 ( Google Books )
^ Theodore Sidney Moïse . In: Kathleen Luhrs (Ed.): American Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art . Volume 1: John Caldwell, Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, Dale T. Johnson: A Catalog of Works by Artists Born by 1815 . The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 1994, ISBN 0-870-99244-9 , p. 525 ( Google Books )
^ New Orleans Daily Crescent , November 28, 1859 issue
^ Estill Curtis Pennington: Downriver. Currents of Style in Louisiana Painting, 1800-1950 . New Orleans Museum of Art, Pelican Publishing Comp., New Orleans / Louisiana 1991, ISBN 0-88289-800-0 , pp. 61 f. ( Google Books )
^ Sarah Cash (Ed.): Corcoran Gallery of Art. American Paintings to 1945 . Corcoran Gallery of Art in collaboration with Hudson Hills Press, Washington DC 2011, p. 314 ff.

personal data
SURNAME	Reinhart, Benjamin Franklin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American genre painter, portrait painter and history painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH	August 29, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH	near Waynesburg , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH	May 3, 1885
Place of death	Philadelphia

[1] Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )

[2] Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 2, p. 438

[3] Estill Curtis Pennington: Lessons in Likeness. Portrait Painters in Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley, 1802-1920 . The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington / Kentucky 2011, ISBN 978-0-8131-2612-8 , p. 202 ( Google Books )

[4] Theodore Sidney Moïse . In: Kathleen Luhrs (Ed.): American Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art . Volume 1: John Caldwell, Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, Dale T. Johnson: A Catalog of Works by Artists Born by 1815 . The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 1994, ISBN 0-870-99244-9 , p. 525 ( Google Books )

[5] New Orleans Daily Crescent , November 28, 1859 issue

[6] Estill Curtis Pennington: Downriver. Currents of Style in Louisiana Painting, 1800-1950 . New Orleans Museum of Art, Pelican Publishing Comp., New Orleans / Louisiana 1991, ISBN 0-88289-800-0 , pp. 61 f. ( Google Books )

[7] Sarah Cash (Ed.): Corcoran Gallery of Art. American Paintings to 1945 . Corcoran Gallery of Art in collaboration with Hudson Hills Press, Washington DC 2011, p. 314 ff.