Edwin Lord Weeks

Edwin Lord Weeks (ca.1874)

Edwin Lord Weeks (* 1849 in Boston , † 1903 in Paris ) was - together with his contemporary Frederick Arthur Bridgman - the most important American draftsman and painter of Orientalism .

biography

Although Weeks was well known in his time, only a few dates and facts of his life are exactly proven. Even the exact dating of his rather extensive work is incomplete.

Weeks' parents were spice and tea merchants in Newton , a suburb west of Boston. Even as a boy he liked to draw - for example on a trip to the Everglades swamps in Florida . His earliest surviving drawings are from 1867; his first well-known picture ( landscape with blue heron ) was created four years later.

In 1872 he chose Paris as his new residence, where he became a student of Léon Bonnat and Jean-Léon Gérôme . After completing his studies, he first returned to the USA, but in 1869 he undertook a trip to South America . A year later he traveled to Persia and Egypt and in the 1870s he stayed several times in Morocco . In the years 1882/83 he made a trip to India .

In 1895 he published an illustrated travel book entitled From the Black Sea through Persia and India and in 1897 the work Episodes of Mountaineering .

Weeks died in 1903.

Honors

Weeks was a member

• the Legion of Honor
• of the Order of Michael
• the Munich Secession .

photos

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  Mihrab of the Mosque of Cordoba (ca.1880)

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  Gate of the Mosque of Cordoba (ca.1885)

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  Ghats of Mathura (1882)

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  Barque of the Maharaja of Benares (1883)

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  Return of the Grand Mogul from a mosque visit (1886)

literature

• Gerald M. Ackerman: Les orientalistes de l'école americaine , ACR, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-86770-067-1 .

Web links

Commons : Edwin Lord Weeks  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Edwin Lord Weeks; Works - photos
• Edwin Lord Weeks: Hindoo and Moslem in: Harper's New Monthly Magazine , Vol. 91, No. 545, October 1895, pp. 651-669.