Charles Schreyvogel

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Heinrich August Schwabe: Portrait of Charles Schreyvogel
The Silenced War Whoop , 1908, oil on canvas, 122 × 168 cm, American Museum of Western Art, Denver

Charles Schreyvogel (born January 4, 1861 in New York City , † January 27, 1912 in Hoboken ) was an American painter.

Life

Schreyvogel's grandfather Louis Erbe came to the United States from Prussia in 1848. Louis and his wife Augusta settled in New York City. Here, their daughter Teresa met Paul Schreyvogel and married the seller in 1856. Charles was born in 1861, the second of three sons.

Schreyvogel began to draw autodidactically at an early age. After his first job as a carver of meerschaum pipes, he completed an apprenticeship with a gold engraver and, until 1877, an apprenticeship as a lithographer. Then he attended art courses from Heinrich August Schwabe in Newark . Through Schwabe he met the art patron William Redwood Fisher, with whose support he was able to study in Munich with Carl von Marr and Frank Kirchbach from 1886 to 1889 .

In 1890 Schreyvogel returned to the United States and settled in Hoboken, from where he made frequent trips to the Indian reservations in Colorado, Arizona, Montana and Dakota from 1893 onwards. In 1893 Schreyvogel met Louise Walther and married her a year later. In 1903 the couple had their daughter Ruth Elisabeth.

Schreyvogel died of blood poisoning at the age of 51.

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Schreyvogel mainly painted scenes from the Wild West and portrayed the life of the Indians, but also the European settlers. Again and again he documented battle scenes between the Indians and the American cavalry. Schreyvogel used a realistic illustrative style with creamy colors. In order to earn money, he worked as a portrait painter and occasionally as a sculptor.

Awards

literature

  • Schreyvogel, Charles . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 287 .
  • James D. Horan: The Life And Art Of Charles Schreyvogel: Painter-Historian Of The Indian-Fighting Army Of The American West. Crown Publishers Inc., New York City 1969
  • Doreen Bolger Burke: American painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Volume 3, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 1980, pp. 400ff.
  • Sonja Baranow: Schreyvogel, Charles . In: Horst Ludwig (Ed.): Munich painter in the 19th century . Volume 4: Saffer – Zwengauer. Bruckmann, Munich 1983, pp. 106f.
  • Axel Schulze-Thulin: Indians of the West of North America (1870-1900) - The Schreyvogel Collection in the Linden Museum Stuttgart . Eugen Diederichs Verlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 978-3-424-01137-1 .
  • Charles Schreyvogel . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 102, de Gruyter, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-023268-4 , p. 213.

Web links

Commons : Charles Schreyvogel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Schreyvogel , National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, accessed August 14, 2020
  2. ^ A b c Sonja Baranow: Schreyvogel, Charles . In: Horst Ludwig (Ed.): Munich painter in the 19th century. Volume 4: Saffer – Zwengauer. Bruckmann, Munich 1983, pp. 106f.
personal data
SURNAME Schreyvogel, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1912
Place of death Hoboken