Horace Pippin
Horace Pippin (born February 22, 1888 in West Chester , Pennsylvania ; died July 6, 1946 there ) was a black American naive painter .
Life
Horace Pippin was born into a poor family and grew up in the climate of racist oppression of the post- slavery period . His family moved to Goshen , New York , in 1891 and in 1903 Horace Pippin left school to work as a doorman and support his widowed mother.
At the age of ten he began to paint pictures with biblical themes. After his mother died in 1911, Pippin went to Paterson , New Jersey , where he did various jobs as a packer and pourer. In 1917 he enlisted in the army and was sent to France as an infantryman on the front lines of the First World War . There his right shoulder was shot by a German sniper; All his life Pippin was handicapped by the immobile arm. He brought back a sketchbook with drawings from the war, which has come down to us as his earliest work.
In 1920 Pippin married the widow Jenny Wade who had a son. They opened a laundry, whose income, together with Pippin's inadequate pension, enabled the family to make a living. He began to paint in 1928 and became one of the most famous naive American painters, who has been compared to Henri Rousseau (1844-1910). He developed a painting technique in which his (flexible) left arm supported and guided the powerless right arm, while the right hand held the brush. Horace Pippin died of a stroke while sleeping on July 6, 1946.
One of his last completed works is the picture The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1946), which he painted for the Bel-Ami competition . In 1974 the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington showed paintings by the self-taught Ida Ella Ruth Jones and Horace Pippin in an exhibition on naive art .
Works
- The End of War, 1928/30
- Amish Letter Writer, 1940, oil on canvas, 12 × 20 1/8 inches
- Christ Before Pilate, 1941, oil on canvas, 20 × 24 inches
- John Brown Going to His Hanging, 1942, oil on canvas, 24 1/8 × 30¼ inches
- The Crucifixion, 1943, oil on canvas, 16 × 20 inches
- The Greatest Temptation of Saint Anthony, 1946, oil on canvas, 91.4 × 121.9 cm
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| SURNAME | Pippin, Horace |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | West Chester , Pennsylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 6, 1946 |
| Place of death | West Chester , Pennsylvania |