John Quincy Adams (painter)

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John Quincy Adams (born December 21, 1874 in Vienna ; † March 15, 1933 there ) was an Austrian painter .

Photo by Edith Barakovich (around 1930)
JQ Adams' signatures
Portrait of the artist of his wife Stefanie (1912)

Life

John Quincy Adams was the son of Carl Adams (1834-1900) , a hero tenor of the Viennese court opera who came from Boston in the USA and worked in Vienna from 1867 to 1877, and his first name was based on an ancestor, the 6th President of the United States , John Quincy Adams . Adams spent his teenage years from 1878 to 1884 with his parents in the United States. From 1891 he attended Robert Scheffer's painting school in Vienna and then from 1893 studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Siegmund L'Allemand and August Eisenmenger . He then studied with Carl von Marr and Johann Caspar Herterich in Munich and with Jules Laurens and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant in Paris at the Académie Julian . The influence of James McNeill Whistler in London on his painting was formative. Study trips took him to the Netherlands , Italy and Spain .

From 1903 Adams was a member of the Künstlerhaus in Vienna , in whose exhibitions he participated. In 1904 he received the Small Golden State Medal, in 1905 the Archduke Karl Ludwig Medal for the portrait of Frau Gretl Urban , and in 1906 the Large Golden State Medal in Vienna for the painting We must go through many tribulations in the kingdom of God and in 1907 in Salzburg.

During the First World War he was a member of the art group of the Austro-Hungarian war press quarter and painted in the Russian, Italian, Serbian and Albanian theater of war. Some of the works from this creative period are now in the collections of the Vienna Army History Museum .

The summer spent Adams often in Sankt Gilgen , where he is a prefabricated wooden house from Sweden had it delivered, later acquired by Alfred Gerstenbrand (1881-1977). Presumably he also had contact with the later so-called Zinkenbach painters' colony .

Adams, whose studio was in Theresianumgasse from 1917 to 1931, often stayed in the USA, where he was very successful. Shortly before a major exhibition to which the Pittsburgh Carnegie Institute had invited him, the artist died in the Auerspergstrasse sanatorium in Vienna.

His grave of honor is in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 35D, row 1, number 28).

John Quincy Adams daughter Harriet Adams, married Harriet Walderdorff, advanced to a recognized hotelier after 1948 with her Salzburg Hotel Zum Goldenen Hirschen , who was elected President of the Austrian Hotel Association in 1963. In 1986 she initiated an exhibition about her father at the Academy of Fine Arts , which focused on his work as a portraitist.

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John Quincy Adams was engaged in portrait , genre and landscape painting . He became famous for his portraits of personalities from Viennese society, many of which, however, go beyond the purely portrait-like. The portrayal of a gynecological operation that exceeded the scope of a group portrait caused a scandal in 1909. In addition to numerous pictures in private ownership, there are works by Adams in the Austrian Gallery Belvedere and the Wien Museum .

Famous works:

gallery

  • Luise Eisner , later Princess Odescalchi, (Vienna, Belvedere, inv. No. 5554) 1926

  • Countess Michael Karolyi , (private collection) 1918, oil on canvas, 180 × 175 cm

  • Baroness Kitty Rothschild , (Vienna, Belvedere) 1916, oil on canvas, 215 × 128.5 cm

  • Portrait of a Young Lady, 1908

  • Johann II v Liechtenstein, 1908

  • Wertheim during an operation, 1907, oil on canvas

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The year and date of birth differ in the literature, the most common being the date:
    December 21, 1874:
    Fuchs, Kleindel (with “?”), Liechtenstein Museum , Adams, John Quincy . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 1 : Aa – Antonio de Miraguel . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1907, p. 74-75 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ). (with the note at the entry: “After personal communication of the artist through G. Klement.)“, Vollmer In addition, there is the following information: February 12, 1873:     Austrian Gallery Belvedere Regine Schmidt: Art in Austria 1918–1938 from the Austrian Gallery . Exhibition catalog, Halbturn Palace 1984 December 21, 1873: Rudolf Schmidt: Österreichisches Künstlerlexikon . Volume 1. Vienna 1980, p. 461 December 23, 1873: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (according to their student directory) December 23, 1873: Adams, John-Quincy . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . 2nd revised edition (online only). December 21, 1875: Examination book ( John Quincy Adams in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna )





  2. ^ Austrian Army Museum (ed.): Catalog of the war picture gallery of the Austrian Army Museum . Vienna 1923, p. 8
  3. ^ Austrian Army Museum (ed.): Catalog of the war picture gallery of the Austrian Army Museum . Vienna 1923, p. 5.
  4. ↑ Sanatorium Auerspergstrasse. In:  Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Democratic Organ , No. 300/1910 (XLIV. Volume), November 1, 1910, p. 13, column 1 center. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwg.
  5. ↑ The burial took place after the consecration in the Protestant church in the central cemetery on March 18, 1933. ( (Deaths.). In:  Neue Freie Presse , March 17, 1933, p. 6 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp)
  6. ↑ See Presidents Chronicle of the ÖHV: oehv.at ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2014 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 January 6, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oehv.at
  7. ^ Nikolaus Schaffer: Viennese society in portrait . The painter John Quincy Adams. Catalog for the exhibition from July 9th to August 10th 1986. Vienna 1986.

literature

  • Adams, John Quincy . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 1 : Aa – Antonio de Miraguel . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1907, p. 74-75 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • John Quincy Adams . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 10 .
  • Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian painters of the 19th century . Volume 1 A-F. Self-published, Vienna 1972, pp. K10 and 5–7.
  • Adams John Quincy. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1957, p. 5 f. (Direct links on p. 5 , p. 6 ).
  • Margarethe Poch-Kalous: John Quincy Adams - a forgotten Viennese painter . In: Ancient and Modern Art . 20th year 1975, issue 138, p. 33ff.
  • Regine Schmidt: Art in Austria 1918-1938 from the Austrian Gallery . Exhibition catalog, Schloss Halbthurn 1984.
  • Nikolaus Schaffer: A portrait of Viennese society. The painter John Quincy Adams . Catalog for the exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna , July 9 to August 10, 1986. Verlag der Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna 1986.
  • Walter Kleindel: The great book of the Austrians. 4500 person representations in words and pictures . With the collaboration of Hans Veigl . Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-218-00455-1 , p. 7.
  • John Quincy Adams in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna (with further information on the artist's dates of birth and addresses in Vienna)
  • Alexandra Peyrer-Heimstätt: The Viennese painter John Quincy Adams . Diploma thesis University of Vienna, Vienna 1995.

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personal data
SURNAME Adams, John Quincy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1933
Place of death Vienna