Henry Keller
Henry George Keller , also Heinrich Keller (born April 3, 1869 on the Atlantic ; † August 3, 1949 in San Diego , California ), was an American painter and art teacher at the Cleveland School of Art .
Life
Keller, son of Jacob Keller, born in Klingenmünster ( Palatinate ), and his wife Barbara, née Karcher, was born at sea when they emigrated from Germany . He grew up in Cleveland , Ohio , where he began studying at the Western Reserve School of Design for Women (now the Cleveland Institute of Art ) in 1887 . In 1888 he enrolled at the Düsseldorf Art Academy as "Heinrich Keller" . Hugo Crola and Heinrich Lauenstein were his teachers there until 1890 . In October 1890 he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . He also studied for a time with the animal painter Hermann Baisch at the Grand Ducal Badische Kunstschule in Karlsruhe before completing his studies in Cleveland. To finance his studies, he worked as a lithographer . In New York City he was a member of the Art Students' League . On January 2, 1893, he married Imogene Leslie. The couple had two sons, Henry Leslie Keller and Albert Fay Keller. From 1899 to 1902, Keller stayed again in Munich , where he studied with the animal painter Heinrich von Zügel . During this time he also took lessons from Julius Bergmann in Düsseldorf. From 1902 he worked as a teacher at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh , where he left in 1908, and at the Cleveland School of Art , where he was a member of the teaching college until 1945. Around 1908 he founded a summer painting school in Berlin Heights, Ohio. After the death of his wife in 1948, he moved to San Diego, where he died soon after.
Keller was particularly popular as a watercolorist of North American landscapes and genre scenes. He also worked as an animal, nude, flower and still life painter. In 1913, Keller became a member of the Union Internationale des Beaux-Arts et des Lettres in Paris , and in 1930 a member of the Cleveland Society of Artists . In 1939 he was elected an associate of the National Academy of Design .
literature
- Peter Hasting Falk: Who was Who in American Art . Sound View, Madison 1985, p. 331.
- Mary Sayre Haverstock, Jeannette Mahoney Vance, Brian L. Meggitt: Artists in Ohio, 1787–1900. A Biographical Dictionary . The Kent State University Press, Kent / Ohio 2000, p. 477.
Web links
- Henry George Keller , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Keller, Henry George , biography in the case.edu portal( Case Western Reserve University )
- Henry George Keller , biography on the portal annexgalleries.com
- Henry George Keller , biography on the burchfieldpenney.org portal
- Henry George Keller , Auction Results on artnet .com
Individual evidence
- ↑ See nos. 7039–7041 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the archive.nrw.de portal ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )
- ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 433
- ↑ 00736 Heinrich Keller , registration of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Keller, Henry |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Keller, Henry George (full name); Keller, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter and art teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | on the Atlantic |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 3, 1949 |
| Place of death | San Diego , California |