Emil Bott

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Emil Bott (* July 24, 1824 , 1825 or 1827 , probably in Frankfurt am Main ; † February 16, 1908 in Phillipsburg , Beaver County , Pennsylvania ) was a German-American landscape and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Guarding the Road to Windschester , ink drawing, 1862
Defeat of the Cold-Water-Men by the Bock , illustration (lithograph), 1873

Coming from Frankfurt am Main, Bott attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1847 and 1848 . There he was a student of Johann Wilhelm Schirmer's landscape class . In 1848 he emigrated with his father Adolph Bott to the United States, where they settled in Phillipsburg and belonged to the radical pietist Harmony Society inspired by Johann Georg Rapp . It is believed that upon arriving in the United States, he worked as an art teacher at a private school in Brighton Township, Beaver County. In 1850 he married Emma Böcking (1827–1899), the daughter of the landscape painter Adolph Böcking (1782–1861, brother of Heinrich Böcking and grandson of the cloth manufacturer Bernhard Georg von Scheibler ), who had also studied with Schirmer in Düsseldorf from 1832 to 1834. The couple, who had several children, initially lived in Phillipsburg (now Monaca). Lithographs of Bott's views of the industrial city of Pittsburgh were published in 1850 and 1851 . His landscape painting is dated 1854 Beaver Falls . In 1859 he took part in the first Pittsburgh Art Association art exhibition . In the 1860s, when Bott lived in Pittsburgh and had a studio there, he was considered a respected and well-known painter on the local art scene. In 1862/1863 he served in the 1st Volunteer Regiment of the West Virginia Light Artillery . He captured scenes from the military life of this time in numerous sketches. In Pittsburgh and Cincinnati he made a name for himself as a “portrait painter” of steam boats and tugs. An example of this marine painting is the painting The Idlewild from 1881 . He also worked as a decorative painter by designing ship cabins. He is also considered an industrial painter . Between about 1880 and 1899 Bott lived in Canton (Ohio) , where he worked as an artist, including portrait painter, for the Diebold Safe Works Company . In 1908 he died - aged and moronic - in a poor house. Some of Bott's works can be viewed today in the Merrick Art Gallery in New Brighton, Pennsylvania.

literature

  • Paul A. Chew (Ed.): Southwestern Pennsylvania Painters, 1800-1945 . Westmoreland County Museum of Art, Greensburg / Pennsylvania 1981, p. 22.
  • Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays . Volume 2, Gründ, Paris 1999.
  • Linda Cunningham Fluharty: Emil Bott. Civil War Soldier and Artist . Fish Creek Press, 2001.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Although historical sources give his date of birth as 1827, the date on his tombstone is July 24, 1824. According to the pension application, however, he was born on July 24, 1825. The student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf in 1847 indicate his age as 20 years. According to 1860 Federal Census, Phillipsburgh Borough, Beaver County, Pa. he was born in "Frankfurt on Main".
  2. ^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein : The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 144
  3. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 427
  4. ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
  5. ↑ Emma Bocking Bott , website in the findagrave.com portal , accessed on April 27, 2018
  6. ↑ Adolph Bocking , website in the findagrave.com portal , accessed on April 27, 2018
  7. ↑ Adolph Böcking , genealogical data sheet in the portal gw.geneanet.org , accessed on April 27, 2018
  8. ^ Rudolf Theilmann, p. 144
  9. ↑ Rina Youngner: . Industry in Art Pittsburgh, 1812 of To 1920 . University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh 2006, ISBN 978-0-8229-4276-4 , p. 31
  10. ↑ Christopher W. Lane: Panorama of Pittsburgh. Nineteenth-Century Printed Views . University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh 2008, ISBN 978-0-8229-6015-7 , p. 34
  11. ^ National Archives Pension File of Emil Bott , website in the lindapages.com portal , accessed on April 27, 2018
  12. ↑ Sotheby’s (Ed.): Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture . 1991, p. 7
  13. ↑ Achim Lettmann: "Tierra del Fuego": Oberhausen shows industrial painting . Article from October 19, 2010 in the portal wa.de , accessed on April 28, 2018
  14. ↑ Jeffrey Snedden: History mailbag: Sandy and Beaver Canal, Monaca's old German cemetery . Article from November 29, 2016 in the timesonline.com portal , accessed on April 28, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Bott, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American landscape and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1824 or July 24, 1825 or July 24, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH uncertain: Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1908
Place of death Phillipsburg , Beaver County , Pennsylvania , United States