Gari Melchers

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Julius Garibaldi Melchers , painting by Frank Scott Clark, 1900
Gari Melchers in a Paris studio, photo, 1889

Julius Garibaldi Melchers (born August 11, 1860 in Detroit , † November 30, 1932 in Fredericksburg, Virginia ) was a German - American painter.

Life

War , 1896, symbolist wall painting in the Library of Congress , Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, DC
Reading woman , 1910

The son of the German emigrant and sculptor Julius Theodor Melchers, born in Soest ( Westphalia , Kingdom of Prussia ), and his wife Marie Bangetor received his training from Hugo Crola , Heinrich Lauenstein , Johann Peter Theodor Janssen , Carl Müller , Eduard von Gebhardt and from 1878 to 1881 Julius Roeting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , then in Paris through Jules-Joseph Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger . Melchers was friends with the painters John Singer Sargent and George Hitchcock .

Since April 14, 1903 Gari Melchers was married to the artist Corinne Lawton Mackall (born February 27, 1880 in Savannah / Georgia ), who outlived him by 23 years. In 1942 they bequeathed their common house to the village of Belmont , so that today's Gari Melcher Memorial Gallery (also known as Gari Melchers Home and Studio ) could function as an art museum and homage. Today it is administered by the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg. The museum opened its doors for the first time in 1975.

In many of his paintings, which - especially in his later Impressionist phase - are characterized by bright and fresh color tones as well as broad and strong color treatment (see colorism ), he depicts the life of the simple people in Holland (see naturalism ). Melchers won a medal of honor at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900 . His later works include murals in the Washington Library of Congress . Melchers lived alternately in Paris, Holland and New York . Since 1898 he was an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters . In 1909 he became a professor at the Weimar Art Academy , where he worked until 1914. In 1915 he returned to the United States with his wife. They opened a studio in New York.

His Falmouth residence, Gari Melchers Home & Studio (also known as Belmont ), was recognized as a National Historic Landmark in December 1965 , making it one of 121 such historic sites in Virginia. The residence has been listed as a Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places since October 1966 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Gari Melchers  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Who was Gari Melchers - at the University of Mary Washington ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2010 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.umw.edu
  2. ↑ See: Julius Theodore Melchers in the English language Wikipedia
  3. ↑ Article Melchers, Gari in the portal nga.gov ; Retrieved November 10, 2013
  4. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel, Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Volume 1. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , p. 435
  5. ↑ Gari Melchers: Who Was Gari Melchers? Gari Melcher's Home and Studio (University of Mary Washington, 2013). Retrieved November 30, 2013
  6. ^ Members: Gari Melchers. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 14, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Gari Melchers (1860-1932) . georgiaencyclopedia.org; Retrieved November 10, 2013
  8. ↑ The Gari Melchers Home ( Memento of the original from June 6, 2011 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. , National Historic Landmarks Program website Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Virginia. National Park Service , accessed March 21, 2020. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tps.cr.nps.gov
  9. ^ Franklin and Armfield Office on the National Register of Historic Places , accessed March 21, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Melchers, Gari
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Melchers, Julius Garibaldi (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1932
Place of death Fredericksburg, Virginia