Christian Schussele

Christian Schussele, portrayed by Jacques Reich (1852–1923)

Men of Progress, 1857

Christian Schussele , German Christian Schüssele (born April 16, 1824 in Guebwiller , † August 20, 1879 in Merchantville , New Jersey ), was a French- American history and portrait painter who worked as an important university professor in Philadelphia .

Life

The Alsatian Christian Schüssele studied from 1842 to 1847 at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris with Adolphe Yvon and Paul Delaroche . He then emigrated to the United States and settled in Philadelphia in the early 1850s. First he continued the work on lithography that had begun in France ; but then devoted himself entirely to painting.

In his picture Men of Progress , in 1857, he gathered Americans who were all still alive at the time but had never come together as a group.

In 1865 he had his right hand, which had been partially paralyzed since 1863, operated on - but without any noticeable success. This is one of the reasons why he taught drawing and painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1868 onwards . Schüssel's student Emily Sartain made his works known through high-quality prints. In 1876 he selected Thomas Eakins as his assistant. Schüssele taught as an outstanding academic until his death. Eakins then took the chair until 1886.

literature

Schussele, Christian . 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. 344 .
Schussele, Christian . In: James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (Eds.): Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography . tape 5 : Pickering - Sumter . D. Appleton and Company, New York 1888, p. 429 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).

Web links

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Entry in the NGA (English)
Entry in the RKD
Entry in WorldCat (English)
1859: David Zeisberger preaches to the Indians in the headwaters of the Ohio
Entry in freimaurer-wiki.de
Entry in artcyclopedia.com
Entry in the SAAM
Pictures in the-athenaeum.org

annotation

^ From left: William Thomas Green Morton , James Bogardus , Samuel Colt , Cyrus McCormick , Joseph Saxton , Charles Goodyear , Peter Cooper , Jordan Lawrence Mott (* 1799), Joseph Henry , Eliphalet Nott , John Ericsson , Frederick Ellsworth Sickels (1819–1895 ), Samuel FB Morse , Henry Burden (1791–1871), Richard March Hoe , Erastus Brigham Bigelow (1814–1879), Isaiah Jennings, Thomas Blanchard (1788–1864) and Elias Howe . On the wall in the background on the left, Schussele placed the father of these inventors as a picture in the picture: Benjamin Franklin .

personal data
SURNAME	Schussele, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bowl, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French-American history and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH	April 16, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH	Guebwiller
DATE OF DEATH	August 20, 1879
Place of death	Merchantville , New Jersey

[A1-1] From left: William Thomas Green Morton , James Bogardus , Samuel Colt , Cyrus McCormick , Joseph Saxton , Charles Goodyear , Peter Cooper , Jordan Lawrence Mott (* 1799), Joseph Henry , Eliphalet Nott , John Ericsson , Frederick Ellsworth Sickels (1819–1895 ), Samuel FB Morse , Henry Burden (1791–1871), Richard March Hoe , Erastus Brigham Bigelow (1814–1879), Isaiah Jennings, Thomas Blanchard (1788–1864) and Elias Howe . On the wall in the background on the left, Schussele placed the father of these inventors as a picture in the picture: Benjamin Franklin .