Harriet Hosmer
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Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (born October 9, 1830 in Watertown , USA; † February 21, 1908 there ) was an American sculptor .
life and work
Hosmer was the youngest daughter of the doctor Hiram Hosmer and his wife Sarah. The mother died of tuberculosis when Harriet was just four years old. Since her siblings also died early, their father tried to harden them and let them play a lot outdoors, teaching them riding and shooting. She took modeling lessons from the sculptor Stevenson in Boston at an early age , then went to St. Louis , toured western North America and set up a studio in her hometown, where she created her first works. In 1852 she went to Europe with her father and became a pupil of John Gibson in Rome , under whose direction she made her main studies and initially copied some works by older masters.
"Their own creations had great success because of their strong, energetic, almost masculine character, [...]." For example with puck on a mushroom , sleeping satyr (now in the Cleveland Museum of Art ), watching satyr , siren as a fountain model , Beatrice Cenci , a shackled Queen Zenobia ( Zenobia in chains , 1859, now in the Huntington Library in San Marino near Los Angeles , California ) and the bronze statue of statesman Thomas Hart Benton in Lafayette Park in St. Louis .
literature
- Harriet Hosmer . In: Cosmopolitan Art Journal . tape 3 , no. 5 December 1859, p. 214-217 , JSTOR : 20487370 (English).
- Hosmer, Harriet . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 8, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 736.
- Harriet Goodhue Hosmer, Cornelia Carr: Harriet Hosmer letters and memories . John Lane, The Bodley Head, London 1913 (English, archive.org ).
- Hosmer, Harriet . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924, p. 546 .
- Barbara Groseclose: Hosmer, Harriet Goodhue (1830–1908), sculptor . In: American National Biography . doi : 10.1093 / anb / 9780198606697.article.1700425 (English).
- Margaret Ferrand Thorp: Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary . Eds .: Edward T. James, Janet Wilson James, Paul S. Boyer. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1971, ISBN 0-674-62731-8 , pp. 221–223 (English, books.google.de - excerpt).
- Dolly Sherwood: Harriet Hosmer, American sculptor, 1830-1908 . University of Missouri Press, Columbia 1991 (English).
- Kate Culkin: Harriet Hosmer: A Cultural Biography . University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst 2010, ISBN 978-1-55849-838-9 , JSTOR : j.ctt5vk0rs (English, books.google.de - reading sample).
Web links
- Literature by and about Harriet Hosmer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Harriet Hosmer. In: FemBio. Women's biography research (with references and citations).
- Papers of Harriet Goodhue Hosmer, 1777–1981 hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hosmer, Harriet . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 8, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 736.
- ^ Zenobia is back in America , accessed June 19, 2009.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hosmer, Harriet |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hosmer, Harriet Goodhue (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American sculptress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 9, 1830 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Watertown, Massachusetts , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 21, 1908 |
| Place of death | Watertown, Massachusetts |