Edmund Osthaus

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Edmund Henry Osthaus (born August 5, 1858 in Einum near Hildesheim , Kingdom of Hanover , † January 29, 1928 in Marianna , Florida ) was a German-American genre , landscape and animal painter and illustrator of the Düsseldorf School , who focused on the representation of hunting dogs specialized.

Life

Osthaus was the son of Ferdinand Heinrich (Henry) Engelbert Osthaus from Einum in the Kingdom of Hanover, who came from a wealthy farming family and who married the Englishwoman Henrietta Maria Hunneman (n). Even as a child he was passionate about drawing animals. The family emigrated to Mexico in 1864 when Maximilian I was enthroned . When his empire failed in the course of the French wars of intervention , the family fled to the United States and initially returned to Germany. The parents later emigrated again to the New World and settled in Oshkosh, Wisconsin .

Osthaus' father, who had originally intended his son to be trained as an architect, finally agreed to an artistic training at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . After Osthaus graduated from the Josephinum Hildesheim high school , he studied at the Düsseldorf Academy from 1875 to 1880 with teachers Peter Janssen the Elder , Andreas and Karl Müller , Julius Roeting and Eduard Gebhardt . As a private student, he also took lessons from the Düsseldorf painter Christian Kröner in hunting and animal painting.

English Setters

In 1883, at the age of 25, Osthaus moved in with his brother Carl Wilhelm Ferdinand (* 1862), a later philologist and professor of German at Indiana University, and his sister, the future Marie Osthaus Griffith (1855-1927), one Landscape and flower painter, to his parents in Oshkosh, where he worked as a freelance landscape and animal painter. At the instigation of David Ross Locke (1833-1888), editor of the daily Toledo Blade , whom Osthaus had met on a fishing trip, he was appointed director of the Toledo Academy of Fine Arts in Toledo (Ohio) in 1886 after having been there for some time had worked as a teacher. He left this academy in 1893 when it had to close. In 1894, his wife Charlotte M. Becker, whom he married on July 27, 1892 in Wisconsin, died.

The First Lesson (A Setter and Her Six Pups) - The First Lesson (A Setter and Her Six Pups)

As a freelance painter, he opened a studio on the corner of Madison Avenue and 11th Street in Toledo. In the 1890s he became one of the leading animal painters in the United States - thanks in part to social contacts within the hunter and anglers, to which he was a passionate hunter and angler. He was best known for dog portraits, which were distributed on calendars, postcards and lithographs from the Du Pont Gunpowder Company of Wilmington, Delaware. As an illustrator , he has worked for various newspapers and magazines, including The Saturday Evening Post , Field & Steam , Collier’s , McCall’s , The Literary Digest and Cosmopolitan .

He also bred pointers and setters . In November 1895, Osthaus was one of the founders of the National Field Trial Association , which was founded in Newton, North Carolina. In 1897 he joined the Toledo Tile Club . He was also a member of the Society of Western Artists (1896-1914). To suit his customers on the East Coast, he set up a second studio on West 39th Street in New York City in the late 1890s . On February 18, 1903, in New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral , he married Isabel Carleton of Port Huron, Michigan, who gave birth to their son Franz Egon in January 1904. In 1911, Osthaus opened another studio in the Walker Theater Building in Los Angeles , California, where he was now the center of his life. He also had residences in Ohio and New Jersey and a hunting lodge in Marianna, Florida. On the night of January 28th to 29th 1928 he died in his hunting lodge, where he used to spend the winter.

Osthaus' painting is represented in particular in the Toledo Museum of Art , Oshkosh Public Museum, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts (Hagerstown, Maryland), Port Huron Museum, Canton Museum of Art, Butler Institute of American Art and American Kennel Club . Works by Osthaus regularly fetch high prices on the art market. At an auction in late 2005, Osthaus' Waiting for Master , a painting with three pointers that had long hung in the lobby of the Dana Corporation in Toledo called the Osthaus Gallery , sold for $ 108,000.

literature

  • Dogs Were His Passion . In: Jack K. Paquette: Small Town Girl. And Other Stories About Ordinary People Who Led Extraordinary Lives . Toledo / Ohio 2013, ISBN 978-1-4836-5645-8 , pp. 125-131 ( Google Books ).
  • Shirley Levy: Edmund Henry Osthaus . In: The Toledo Club topics , Volume 3, Issue 11 (December 2012), pp. 12–14 ( PDF ).
  • Osthaus, Edmund Henry . In: Mary Sayre Haverstock, Jeannette Mahoney Vance, Brian L. Meggitt (eds.): Artists in Ohio, 1787–1900. A Bibliographical Dictionary . Kent State University Press, Kent / Ohio 2000, ISBN 0-87338-616-7 , p. 656 ( Google Books ).
  • Osthaus, Edmund Henry . In: Peter Hastings Falk: Who was Who in American Art . Sound View, Madison 1985, ISBN 0-932087-00-0 , p. 462.
  • Osthaus, Edmund Henry . In: Joachim Busse: International manual of all painters and sculptors of the 19th century. Buses directory . Wiesbaden 1977, ISBN 3-9800062-0-4 , p. 927.
  • Kay Evans, George Evans: Dogs That Live Forever . In: Field & Steam , New York City, June 1970, pp. 234-237 ( Google Books ).
  • Osthaus, Edmund Henry . In: James F. Carr: Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers . Carr, New York City 1965, p. 265.
  • Osthaus, Edmund . In: George Derby, James Terry White: The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography . Volume 44, 1962, p. 284.
  • Rudolf Cronau : Three Centuries of German Life in America . Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 1909, p. 550 f. ( Digitized version , Google Books ).
  • TJ Lipman: Edmund H. Osthaus. Painter of Animals . In: Brush and Pencil , Volume 18, Issue 3 (September 1906), pp. 81-90 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Edmund Henry Osthaus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
  2. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
  3. ↑ Albert B. Faust: The Germanness in the United States in its meaning for American culture . Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 1912, p. 277 ( Google Books )
  4. ↑ Gary T. Pakulsky: Heralded paintings by artist Osthaus no longer at Dana . Article from March 27, 2006 in the toledoblade.com portal , accessed on July 6, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Osthaus, Edmund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Osthaus, Edmund Henry (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American genre, landscape and animal painter and illustrator of the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH One at Hildesheim , Kingdom of Hanover
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1928
Place of death Marianna , Florida