Childe Hassam

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Childe Hassam, 1903 in Old Lyme

Frederick Childe Hassam (born October 17, 1859 in Dorchester , Massachusetts , † August 27, 1935 in East Hampton on Long Island , New York ) was an American impressionist painter .

Life

Childe Hassam was an avid draftsman and watercolor painter from his youth. After just one year, he dropped out of high school without a degree in 1877 and took a job in the accounting department of a publishing house. As a young man he worked with woodcuts and established himself as a freelance illustrator for magazines such as Century Magazine , Harper's and Scribner's . In addition, he was taught drawing and painting by the American painter and sculptor William Rimmer . In 1878 he attended night school at the Boston Arts Club and the Lowell Institute. The first landscape pictures were created in a naturalistic style, which mainly showed Boston and the surrounding area ( Gloucester ). Hassam's first solo show took place in 1882 and included about 50 watercolors, most of which showed Nantucket beach scenes .

Childe Hassam: Washington Arch, Spring (Washington Arch in New York in Spring, around 1893)

Hassam first traveled to Europe in the summer of 1883, visiting Italy, France, the Netherlands, Spain and Great Britain. The watercolors by William Turner made a great impression on Hassam. In 1884 Childe Hassam exhibited 67 watercolors from his European tour in Boston.

In 1884 he married Kathleen Maud Doane (1862-1946). The marriage remained childless. In New York in 1886 he saw the exhibition of French Impressionists and in the same year he traveled to Paris, where he stayed for the next three years. In Paris, Hassam studied at the Académie Julian , where he was taught by Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Levebre , among others . Several books appeared in Boston during this time, to which he contributed illustrations; Auctions of his works financed his stay in Paris. In 1887 he exhibited for the first time at the Paris Salon and in 1889 took part in the World's Fair, where he was awarded a bronze medal. In the same year he returned to America and moved to New York.

Childe Hassam: The Water Garden ( The Water Garden , 1909, probably painted in East Hampton)

In 1897 Hassam resigned from the Society of American Artists and founded the Ten American Painters , known as The Ten , with John Henry Twachtman and Julian Alden Weir . Hassam became the leading exponent of American Impressionism. His city views of Washington Square and Fifth Avenue , as well as the landscape views of Gloucester , the Shoals Islands and other subjects, were successful with the public. Since 1898 he was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters . In 1906 Hassam was elected a member ( NA ) of the National Academy of Design . Further trips to Europe and within the USA followed. In 1916 Hassam began a series of pictures with flag motifs, with which he promoted the entry of the USA into the First World War .

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York bought one of his paintings in 1909 while he was still alive .

In 1919 Hassam moved to East Hampton on Long Island / New York, where he died in 1935 and was buried in Cedar Lawn Cemetery.

literature

  • American impressionism . Exhibition catalog for an exhibition in Berlin and Vienna. Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Washington DC 1982.
  • Spanierman Gallery, New York City: Childe Hassam (1859–1935). New York City 1988, ISBN 0-945936-02-8 .
  • William H. Gerdts: American Impressionism. Masterpieces from public and private collections in the United States of America . Exhibition catalog (Villa Favorita, Thyssen-Bornemisza Foundation, Lugano-Castagnola). Eidolon, Einsiedeln 1990.
  • Ulrich W. Hiesinger: Childe Hassam. American impressionist . Exhibition catalog (Jordan-Volpe Gallery, New York, 1994). 2nd Edition. Prestel, Munich et al. 1999, ISBN 3-7913-2218-4 .
  • H. Barbara Weinberg (Ed.): Childe Hassam: American Impressionist. Exhibition catalog Metropolitan Museum of Art. New Haven 2004, ISBN 1-58839-119-1 .

Web links

Commons : Childe Hassam  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Francis Morrone: Walks through Old New York . Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-8094-2455-0 , p. 15.
  2. ^ Francis Morrone: Walks through Old New York . Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-8094-2455-0 , p. 16.
  3. ^ Exhibition catalog Berlin 1982: American Impressionism p. 16.
  4. ↑ Members: Childe Hassam. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 2, 2019 .
  5. ↑ nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "H" / Hassam, Frederick Childe NA 1906 ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 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 26, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalacademy.org
  6. ^ Francis Morrone: Walks through Old New York . Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-8094-2455-0 , p. 18.
personal data
SURNAME Hassam, Childe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hassam, Frederick Childe (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American impressionism painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorchester, Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1935
Place of death East Hampton, New York