Frank Duveneck
Frank Duveneck born when Frank Decker , (* 9 October 1848 in Covington , Kentucky , † 3 January 1919 in Cincinnati ) was an American painter , engraver and sculptor of Impressionism .
Life
Francis Decker was the son of the German immigrant and shoemaker family Bernard and Katherine Decker, née Siemers and later Duveneck. After his father's death from cholera in 1849 and his mother's second marriage to grocer Joseph Duveneck in 1850, he moved to Cincinnati and took the name of his stepfather. He received his earliest training in painting in Cincinnati from Johann Schmitt and Wilhelm Lamprecht, who worked as decorators in Benedictine churches and monasteries . In 1870 he went to Munich to study at the Academy of Fine Arts . His main teachers were Wilhelm Diez and Wilhelm Leibl and he mainly got to know the pictures of Diego Velázquez and Franz Hals . Duveneck mainly painted very realistic portraits in Munich, including one of Professor Ludwig von Löfftz around 1873 , which now hangs in the Art Museum in Cincinnati. Already in this very dark picture he designed the hands and face in thick and wide brushstrokes, giving them a particularly intense sculpture. His Whistling Boy from 1871, now also in Cincinnati, became known accordingly.
In 1873 Duveneck returned to the United States and began teaching at the Ohio Mechanics Institute a year later . Among his best-known students were John Twachtman and Robert Frederick Blum (1857-1903). Frank Duveneck received the first major attention from an exhibition of the Boston Arts Club in 1875, in particular from the well-known art critic Henry James , who called him an unsuspected man of genius in The Nation on June 3, 1875 . In the same year Duveneck went back to Munich, accompanied by his students Twachtman and Henry Farny (1847-1916), and met William Merritt Chase and Walter Shirlaw (1838-1910) there. In May 1876 he traveled to Paris and the following year he went to Venice with Chase and Twachtman for nine months .
In 1878 they returned to Munich and Duveneck gave his first painting lessons as a professor at the academy in the Bavarian town of Polling . Among his students were a number of American students such as Elizabeth Adela Forbes , John White Alexander , Joseph DeCamp , Julius Rolshoven (1858-1930) and Theodore Wendel (1859-1932). In 1879 Duveneck went to Venice and Florence again with several companions, known as The Duveneck Boys , and met James McNeill Whistler and Otto Bacher (1856–1909), from whom he learned the art of etching . He exhibited his etchings together with Whistler in an exhibition of the newly formed Society of Painter-Etchers in London in 1881 , and although his engravings were less detailed than those of his friend, they were kept under a pseudonym for Whistler's work and caused a corresponding sensation. in the course of which the friendship of the two artists ended.
During his stay in Italy, however, the style and above all the subject of Duveneck's painting also changed. Instead of the previously preferred portraits, he painted more landscape and genre pictures and gave them more colors with less sculpture. In 1886 he married his student Elizabeth Boott , a painter from Boston who lived in Florence. However, she died in 1888, the same year that Duveneck made a large portrait of her, and he went back to Cincinnati to teach there. There he made a large statue of his late wife and had a bronze copy of the statue placed on the grave in the Allori cemetery in Florence. He stayed in Cincinnati for the most part, traveling only from time to time and spending the summers in Gloucester , Massachusetts , where he mainly painted colorful and impressionistic landscapes such as Dock Sheds at Low Tide (around 1900, now in the Marine Museum in Newport News , Virginia ) painted. In 1898 he was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters . In 1906 he became a member of the National Academy of Design selected and 1915, his work has been in a major exhibition at the World Expo Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco demonstrated. Duveneck died four years later, in 1919, in Cincinnati.
Individual evidence
- ^ Members: Frank Duveneck. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed February 28, 2019 .
- ↑ nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "D" / Duveneck, Frank NA 1906 ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on June 20, 2015)
literature
- "Der Deutsche Pionier" 1883/84 (American Emigrant Newspaper): German-language obituary for Joseph Duveneck, Frank Duveneck's stepfather; Scan of the obituary mentioning Frank Duveneck as a painter
- Carolyn Kinder Carr: Duveneck, Frank. Grove Art Online , Oxford University Press 2007; Access required.
- Jan Newstrom Thompson: Duveneck, Frank. American National Biography Online , 2000; Access required.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Duveneck, Frank |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Decker, Frank (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American impressionist painter, etcher, and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 9, 1848 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Covington , Kentucky |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 3, 1919 |
| Place of death | Cincinnati |