Johann Gustav Grunewald

Johann Gustav Grunewald , also Gustav Grunewald or Gustav Johann Grunewald (born October 12, 1805 in Gnadau , today part of Barby , Salzlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt ; † August 1, 1878 in Gnadenberg , today Godnów in Lower Silesia ) was a German-American Painter.

Life

Grunewald was born into a Moravian congregation . His artistic talent became apparent at an early age, so that he attended the Dresden Art Academy at the age of 15 . There the painter Caspar David Friedrich was his teacher. This attested to him: ... shows a lot of tendency towards grinding .

After completing his training, Grunewald emigrated to the USA with his wife and settled in the Brethren Church in Bethlehem , Pennsylvania . With the romantic art of painting learned in Dresden, he had success in his new home. Today (2011) his depictions of Niagara Falls from the years 1832 to 1834, of the beginning industrialization in Pennsylvania and his new hometown Bethlehem are known.

In 1867 Grunewald returned to Germany with his second wife. The couple moved to his wife's home parish, Gnadenberg , today Godnów , in Lower Silesia . Here he continued to paint landscapes and portraits. He died in Gnadenberg in 1878.

Exhibitions

His first major retrospective took place in 1992 in Allentown , Pennsylvania at the Allentown Art Museum . In the years before 2011 there were lectures on his life and work both in Herrnhut in Saxony and, for example, in the Sigal Museum in Easton in Pennsylvania. In 2011 the Vineta Museum in Barth in Western Pomerania showed a small exhibition of his works. Payne Gallery at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, showed an exhibition of Grunewald's works in late 2017 / early 2018.

Collections

Important collections of Grunewald's works are in the Unitätsarchiv in Herrnhut, Moravian College , and in the Moravian Archives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The Grunewald Collection in the Moravian Archives contains parts of the artist's estate.

literature

Gerd-Helge Vogel : "... shows a lot of facilities for grinding". Johann Gustav Grunewald. A pupil of the romantic Caspar David Friedrich. Thomas Helms Verlag, Schwerin 2011, ISBN 978-3-940207-38-8 .
Peter F. Blume: Gustav Grunewald. 1805-1878. Allentown Art Museum, Allentown PA 1992, ISBN 1-882011-46-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Landscapes Of Lehigh Valley When Grunewald Came To Bethlehem Painter Showed Nature's Splendor In Views Of Lehigh Valley . In: tribunedigital-mcall . ( mcall.com [accessed May 31, 2018]).
^ Railways and forces of nature in: FAZ from July 19, 2011, page 30
^ Tim Higgins: Pioneers of Moravian art - Ackerman and Grunewald - celebrated at college exhibition . In: themorningcall.com . ( mcall.com [accessed May 31, 2018]).

personal data
SURNAME	Grunewald, Johann Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Grunewald, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-American painter
DATE OF BIRTH	October 12, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gnadau , today in Barby , Salzlandkreis , Saxony-Anhalt
DATE OF DEATH	August 1, 1878
Place of death	Gnadenberg , today Godnow , Lower Silesia

[1] Landscapes Of Lehigh Valley When Grunewald Came To Bethlehem Painter Showed Nature's Splendor In Views Of Lehigh Valley . In: tribunedigital-mcall . ( mcall.com [accessed May 31, 2018]).

[2] Railways and forces of nature in: FAZ from July 19, 2011, page 30

[3] Tim Higgins: Pioneers of Moravian art - Ackerman and Grunewald - celebrated at college exhibition . In: themorningcall.com . ( mcall.com [accessed May 31, 2018]).