Charles William Dahlgreen

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Charles William Dahlgreen (born September 8, 1864 in Oak Park near Chicago , Illinois , † June 19, 1955 there ) was an American painter and graphic artist .

Life

A Country Road , etching, 1913

Dahlgreen was the son of a dyer who immigrated from Germany to Chicago, Illinois in the 1850s . His mother, an educated woman, had worked as an educator in Düsseldorf . Due to the illness and death of his father, he left school to support his family. For some time he worked in a foundry and as a sign painter. Encouraged by his mother, he stayed in Düsseldorf from 1886 to 1888, where he trained as a painter outside the art academy . He returned to Chicago with his wife, a German. There, however, he did not deal with the visual arts at first, but began - initially for the company GF Foster, Sons & Co. , then as an independent entrepreneur - to manufacture and paint signs, emblems, advertising banners and flags. After the Klondike gold rush broke out in 1896 , he worked as a gold prospector .

It was only at an advanced age that he remembered his artistic talent and began to study art at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts around 1904 . There William Penhallow Henderson (1877-1943) and Wellington Jarard Reynolds (1865-1949) were his teachers. From 1906 he attended the Art Institute of Chicago , where he studied with John Vanderpoel (1857-1911), Frederick Warren Freer (1849-1908), Ralph Elmer Clarkson (1861-1943) and Harry Mills Walcott (1870-1944) in Graduated in 1909 at the age of 45.

As an outdoor painter , he made his first trips with John Christen Johanson (1877–1964) and Charles Francis Browne (1859–1920). He soon won awards as a landscape painter . In 1908, while still a student in Chicago, he began with artistic gravure . In 1909 he traveled to Europe again. There he visited English, French, Italian, Belgian and Dutch museums and copied important paintings, such as Rembrandt's Night Watch in original size. In 1909/1910 he stayed in Düsseldorf again. Dahlgreen roamed the areas on Lake Michigan and Brown County in Indiana , where he joined an artist colony in 1915 , he painted in New Mexico , North Carolina and Arizona , and in the 1920s in Grand Canyon National Park . He later visited Yosemite National Park . One of the views that emerged there was acquired by Eleanor Roosevelt .

In 1910 and 1912 he exhibited at the Salon de Paris . In 1915 he presented 31 prints at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco , which earned him an honorable mention. He participated particularly successfully in exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, where he won prizes in 1919, 1920, 1928, 1934 and 1935. He was also represented at annual exhibitions of the Carnegie Institute , Pittsburgh, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts , Philadelphia, the Hoosier Salon and exhibitions of the Chicago Galleries Association .

Dahlgreen taught for several years as a teacher at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was a member of the Art Students 'League of Chicago , the Arts Club of Chicago , the Artists' Guild , the Chicago Society of Etchers , the Chicago Painters and Sculptors , the Oak Park Art League , the Chicago Galleries Association, and the Brown County Art Gallery Association .

Dahlgreen liked to use oil on wood for landscape painting . His graphic work, with which he achieved greater resonance, is based on various techniques, in addition to steel and copper engraving, also on monotype , drypoint and aquatint , and shows a factual, geometrically shaped style in architectural views. His works are represented at the Smithsonian American Art Museum , the Art Institute of Chicago , the Library of Congress and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art , among others . In 1945 he bequeathed around one hundred printing plates to the Smithsonian Institution , which had organized solo exhibitions of his work in 1928 and 1935. In 1946, the Smithsonian Institution hosted another solo exhibition and published a catalog of 100 prints. A listing of his entire graphic oeuvre numbered 234 plates.

literature

  • Helena E. Wright: A National Audience for Prints: The Smithsonian's Special Exhibition Program, 1923-1948 . In: David Tatham (Ed.): North American Prints, 1913–1947: An Examination at Century's End . Syracuse University Press, Syracuse / New York 2006, ISBN 0-8156-3071-9 , p. 37 ff. ( Google Books ).
  • Dahlgreen, Charles William . In: General Artist Lexicon . KG Saur, Munich 1999, volume 23, p. 426.
  • Peter Hastings Falk (Ed.): Who Was Who in American Art . Sound View Press, Madison / Connecticut 1985, p. 146.
  • Una E. Johnson: Charles W. Dahlgreen . In: American Prints and Printmakers . Doubleday & Company, Garden City / New York 1980, 14.
  • Edition of Etchings and Drypoints by Charles W. Dahlgreen . Catalog, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC 1946.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chicago Tribune , June 20, 1955 Issue, Part 4, p. 7; Oak Park Oak Leaves , June 23, 1955 issue, p. 166
  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 1, p. 429
personal data
SURNAME Dahlgreen, Charles William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dahlgreen, Carl William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter and printmaker
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Oak Park near Chicago , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1955
Place of death Oak Park near Chicago , Illinois