Edward Cucuel

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Edward Cucuel around 1913

Edward Cucuel (born August 6, 1875 in San Francisco , † April 18, 1954 in Pasadena , California ) was an American painter .

Life and education

Edward Cucuel was born to an Englishwoman and a French newspaper publisher, making him an illustrator for The Examiner at the age of 14 . He attended the Art Academy in San Francisco and the Académie Julian , the Académie Colarossi and the Académie des Beaux-Arts under Jean-Léon Gérôme in Paris. In 1896 he worked as a newspaper illustrator in New York , then he traveled again to France and Italy to study the " Old Masters ". Study trips brought Cucuel to Spain , Algeria , Ceylon , Japan and China in 1904 . He later worked as an illustrator in Berlin and in Munich (1907), where he joined the artist group Die Scholle . He was particularly influenced by Leo Putz and his open-air works , with whom he spent four years at Hartmannsberg Castle on Lake Chiemsee . In the circle of artists there, Cucuel met his second wife, the flower and still life painter Clara Lotte von Marcard (1897–1968). His first wife was the painter and artisan Marie Tscheuschner ; In 1902 the couple living in Berlin had a daughter. During the First World War, Cucuel painted in Holzhausen am Ammersee , then in Munich and Starnberg (1918), where his boat pictures were taken. In 1939 he settled in Pasadena , California , where he lived until his death in 1954. Cucuel liked to paint nudes and portraits of women in the style of the French Impressionists .

Exhibitions

Works in museums and public exhibitions

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literature

  • Bruckmann's Lexicon of Munich Art . Munich painter in the 19th and 20th centuries Century (born 1871-1900), edited by Horst Ludwig, vol. 5: Achmann-Kursell, Munich 1993, p. 162
  • Fritz von Ostini: The painter Edward Cucuel , Zurich / Vienna / Leipzig 1924
  • Hans Vollmer: Edward Cucuel , in: General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century, ed. by Hans Vollmer, Vol. 1: A – D, Leipzig 1953, Reprint Munich 1992, p. 500

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Clara Lotte von Marcard-Cucuel , from the gallery “Der Panther”, accessed on February 23, 2020
  2. ↑ Tscheuschner, Marie 1867- VIAF ID: 483150808940819000009 (person)
  3. ^ Tscheuschner-Cucuel, Marie: PM. Hanover, May 28 (18) 67, AK: Berlin and Paris. (VBKnn) - Berlin, Kurfürstenstraße 112 , Max Martersteig (Hrsg.): Yearbook of Fine Arts , 1903, in III. Performing artists, column 253
personal data
SURNAME Cucuel, Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1954
Place of death Pasadena , California