Bernhard Gutmann
Bernhard Gutmann , also Bernard Gutmann (born September 24, 1869 in Hamburg ; † January 23, 1936 in New York City ), was a German-American landscape , figure and still life painter as well as illustrator and art teacher .
Life
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Gutmann, the youngest of three sons of the tailor Zadig Gutmann (1826–1908) and his wife Elise, née Biesenthal (1830–1872), grew up in Hamburg and studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1889 and 1890 . There was Hugo Crola his teacher. In 1890 he moved to the Grand Ducal Badische Kunstschule Karlsruhe . He stayed in Haarlem (Netherlands) for a while. In 1892 he emigrated from Hamburg via New York to Lynchburg (Virginia) , where he initially worked as an electrician, then as an art teacher (including at the Randolph-Macon Woman's College ), made a name for himself in the city's cultural life and the Lynchburg Art League (now Lynchburg Art Club ). In 1895 he became superintendent of drawing for all public schools in Lynchburg. In 1897 he became a US citizen. In 1899 he moved to New York City, where he married Bertha Goldman (1891-1936) in 1907, a wealthy heiress from the family of the founders of the trading company Goldman Sachs , with whom he - now financially free - undertook a five-year trip to Europe. In particular, the impressions from Paris , where he had a studio from 1907 to 1911, inspired him for the art of impressionism and post-impressionism . In 1913 Gutmann and his wife moved to Silvermine, Connecticut . There he got involved in regional art and in 1922 he helped found the Silvermine Guild of Artists . In 1934 Gutmann became regional director of the Works Progress Administration in New Canaan, Connecticut . In 1935 he was diagnosed with cancer of the larynx , from which he died within a year.
literature
- Gutmann, Bernard . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 357 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Percy North: Bernhard Gutmann. An American Impressionist, 1869–1936 . Abbeville Press, 1995, ISBN 978-1-5585-9611-5 .
- Gutmann, Bernhard . In: John Arthur Garraty, Mark Christopher Carnes: American National Biography . Oxford University Press, Volume 9 (1999), ISBN 978-0-1952-0635-7 , pp. 747 f.
Web links
- Bernhard Gutmann , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Bernhard Gutmann , biography on the terraamericanart.org portal
- Bernhard Gutmann , genealogical data sheet and biography in the portal horrocksgenealogy.com
- Bernhard Gutmann , auction results on the artnet .com portal
Individual evidence
- ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
- ^ Roberta D. Cornelius: The History of Randolph-Macon Women's College . The University of North Carolina Press, Chapell Hill, 1951, p. 71 ( Google Books )
- ↑ Bernhard Gutmann (American, 1869–1936) , website in the portal williamsamericanart.com , accessed on June 26, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gutmann, Bernhard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gutmann, Bernard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American landscape painter, figure painter and still life painter as well as illustrator and art teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 24, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 23, 1936 |
| Place of death | New York City |