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Stephen Arnold Douglas Volk (born February 23, 1856 in Pittsfield , Massachusetts , † February 7, 1935 in Fryeburg , Maine ) was an American painter .
Volk was the son of the sculptor Leonard Volk and was named after the politician Stephen Arnold Douglas . Volk received his first artistic lessons from his father; his second teacher was the sculptor Thomas Crawford in Rome .
Volk came to Rome with his parents around 1870, as his father became an assistant in the workshop of the sculptor Crawford. A short time later he was accepted as a student at the Accademia di San Luca . In the following year, Volk moved to the Académie de France, also based in Rome .
At the age of 17, Volk was accepted as a student in Paris by Jean-Léon Gérôme in 1873 on the recommendation of his lecturers . Just two years later, Volk was able to debut his painting “En Bretagne” on the occasion of the exhibition of the Paris salons . In 1876 Volk was invited to the World's Fair in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania. He was able to achieve a similarly great success in 1878 at the exhibition in the Paris Salon.
In early 1878, Volk returned to the United States and settled in New York . In the same year he was appointed as a lecturer at the Cooper Institute (New York). In 1886, Volk was instrumental in founding the School of Fine Arts in Minneapolis , Minn. involved and was entrusted with a teaching assignment there. In 1898 the National Academy of Design in New York elected Douglas Volk as an Associate Member ( ANA ) and a year later as a Full Member ( NA ). In 1918 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .
Volk spent the last years of his life withdrawn in Fryeburg, Maine. He died there on February 7, 1935 at the age of almost 79.
Works
(Selection)
- En Bretagne
- Dr. Felix Adler
- Sued of witchcraft
- Father Hennequin
- General Pershing
- King Albert
Individual evidence
- ↑ nationalacademy.org: Artists & Architects "V" / Stephen Arnold Douglas Volk, 1856 - 1935 ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 19, 2015)
- ↑ Members: Douglas Volk. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed May 1, 2019 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Volk, Douglas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pittsfield , Massachusetts , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 7, 1935 |
| Place of death | Fryeburg , Maine , USA |