Emil Foerster (artist)
Emil Foerster (born May 15, 1822 in Gießen , Grand Duchy of Hesse , † April 26, 1906 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ) was a German-American portrait and still life painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Foerster came to the United States as a child . In 1847 he returned to Germany and studied painting with Jakob Becker in Frankfurt am Main . Then he switched to the Düsseldorf Art Academy . In 1849 he was a student of Theodor Hildebrandt there . One of Foerster's classmates was George Hetzel . After Foerster married Elisa Noll in Frankfurt, he returned to the United States in 1849, where he established himself as a portrait painter in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In the course of his career he created around 600 portraits of personalities in Pittsburgh. He also painted still lifes. Foerster's son Adolph Martin (1854–1927) became a musician and portrait painter.
Works (selection)
- Portrait of the Foerster Family , around 1856
- The Ronald B. Sterling Family , 1859
literature
- Witt Library (Ed.): A Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976. Represented in the Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, London . Mansell Information Publishing, London 1978, ISBN 0-7201-0718-0 , p. 100
- University of Minnesota, University Art Museum (Ed.): American Paintings and Sculpture in the University Art Museum Collection . University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 1986, p. 108
Web links
- Emil Foerster , data sheet in the rkd.nl portal( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Emil Foerster , biography on the askart.com portal
- Emil Foerster , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 430.
- ^ Peter C. Merrill: German Immigrant Artists in America. A Biographical Dictionary . Scarecrow Press, Lanham / Maryland 1997, p. 64.
- ^ Judith Hansen O'Toole: Nature's Bounty: Still Life Painting in Southwestern Pennsylvania, 1860-1910 . Website (2011) in the tfaoi.com portal , accessed on July 30, 2016.
- ^ The Old Printshop Portfolio . Volume 7/8, Old Printshop Inc., New York City 1947, p. 237.
- ↑ Cleaning & Conservation , website (2016) in the haa.pitt.edu portal (University of Pittsburgh), accessed on July 30, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Foerster, Emil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American portrait and still life painter from the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 15, 1822 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Giessen , Grand Duchy of Hesse |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 26, 1906 |
| Place of death | Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania |