James Hart (painter)
James McDougal Hart (born May 10, 1828 in Kilmarnock , Strathclyde , Scotland, † October 24, 1901 in Brooklyn , New York) was a Scottish-American painter of the Düsseldorf School .
Life
James McDougal Hart was the brother of William Hart and worked with his brother in Albany, New York for several years as a car painter. In the years 1850 to 1853 (according to more recent research, however, in 1851 and 1852) he was a student of the landscape painter Johann Wilhelm Schirmer in Düsseldorf , from whom he not only learned the thorough study of nature, the depth of perspective staggered landscape structure and the preference for the detailed realistic depiction of large Trees took over, but also his romantic view of the landscape as a carrier of feelings . Like the “painter poet” Schirmer, he achieved a “refined naturalism” by striving for a composition in the reproduction of nature that combined beautiful lines with formal and color balance, following the example of the classical landscape painting by Claude Lorrain and Jacob van Ruisdael .
Before returning to the United States, he stayed in Munich for a while . In 1856, after living in Albany again for a few years, he settled in New York, where he painted very successful landscapes with cattle scenery, which were also influenced by the Hudson River School and Luminism .
The following are to be mentioned:
- The returning cattle
- The moon rise in the Adirondac Mountains
- A forest in autumn
- A Sunday afternoon in Berkshire
- Peaceful Homeland (1872)
- The orchard
- Indian summer
- Summer in Berkshire
In 1859 he was elected a member ( NA ) of the National Academy of Design in New York .
Web links
- James McDougal Hart , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
Individual evidence
- ^ Rudolf Theilmann: The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 145
- ↑ Sabine Morgen: The broadcast of the Düsseldorf school to America in the 19th century. Düsseldorf paintings in America and American painters in Düsseldorf . Göttingen Contributions to Art History, Volume 2, Edition Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-37675-3059-1 , pp. 384, 686
- ↑ Sabine Morgen, p. 694
- ^ Wend von Kalnein: The influence of Düsseldorf on painting outside Germany . In: Wend von Kalnein, p. 203
- ↑ nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "H" / Hart, James McDougal NA 1859 ( 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)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hart, James |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hart, James McDougal (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish-American painter of the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 10, 1828 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kilmarnock , Strathclyde , Scotland |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 24, 1901 |
| Place of death | Brooklyn , New York |