John Robinson Tait

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John Robinson Tait (born January 14, 1834 in Cincinnati , Ohio , † July 29, 1909 in Baltimore , Maryland ) was an American poet , art critic and travel writer and landscape painter of the Düsseldorf and Munich schools .

Life

Nonnenwerth Island with Drachenfels and Rolandsbogen , 1866

Tait received his education at a school in Cincinnati and at Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia . In Bethany he published a magazine called The Stylus .

In 1853 Tait started with his two compatriots, the landscape painter William Louis Sonntag the Elder. Ä. (1822–1900) and Robert Duncanson , a trip to Europe, which led him to Italy in particular, and whose impressions he recorded in his book European Life, Legend, and Landscape , published in 1859 . He came to Düsseldorf in 1853 and visited his “old friend” Worthington Whittredge , who introduced him to Emanuel Leutze and William Dickinson Washington . In Düsseldorf he was again palpable between 1859 and 1870, as a member of the Malkasten artists' association and as a private student of the landscape painters August Weber and Andreas Achenbach . In the summer of 1868 he was visited there by Thomas Buchanan Read . He already knew this American poet and portrait painter, who was well-known at the time, from his time as a schoolboy in Cincinnati and from 1853, when he visited him with the painter Sonntag before his first trip to Europe to receive travel advice, shortly afterwards in Italy, where they maintained a close friendly contact in Florence. At the end of 1855 they traveled back to the United States together aboard the steamer Ericson . Even after that, they had met and written several times.

In addition to the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where he was enrolled in 1862 and took lessons from Rudolf Wiegmann , he studied with Adolf Heinrich Lier in Munich between 1873 and 1876 . There he also socialized with Hermann Baisch . In 1866 and the early 1870s he had returned to the United States, where he participated in art exhibitions at the Cincinnati Industrial Exhibition in 1871 and 1872 and was awarded first prizes. In 1871/1872 he lived in Baltimore. A friend of Tait was the American poet and musician Sidney Lanier . As a reviewer, Tait wrote for New York Mail and Express .

Works (selection)

Evening at the Lake Shore , 1876

painting

  • Mountain landscape with hunters and a hunted deer , 1853
  • Battlefield on Lake Trasimeno , 1855, Asheville Art Museum
  • Cattle herders in a wild mountain landscape , 1861
  • Wooded landscape with a watermill, mountain and castle ruins , 1862
  • Nonnenwerth Island with Drachenfels and Rolandsbogen , 1866
  • Scene at a watermill , 1868
  • Evening at the Lake Shore , 1876
  • Norwegian fjord , 1884
  • Summer landscape with a fence , 1897

writing

  • Dolce Far Niente , Parry and McMillan, Philadelphia 1859 ( digitized version )
  • European Life, Legend, and Landscape , James Challen & Son, Philadelphia 1859 ( digitized version )
  • Reminiscences of a Poet-Painter . In: Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science , XIX, March 17, 1877, pp. 307 ff. ( Digitized version )

literature

  • Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays . Gmünd, Paris 1976, ISBN 2-7000-0149-4 , Volume 10, p. 57

Web links

Commons : John Robinson Tait  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Robinson Tait: European Life, Legend, and Landscape . Philadelphia 1859, pp. 93, 94 ( digitized version )
  2. ↑ John Robinson Tait: Reminiscences of a Poet-Painter . In: Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science , XIX, March 17, 1877, pp. 308 ff., 320 ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ 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. 441
  4. ^ John Robinson Tait: Sanguinetto Battlefield of Trasimene , website in the portal ashevilleart.org , accessed on June 18, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Tait, John Robinson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poet, art critic and travel writer as well as landscape painter from the Düsseldorf and Munich schools
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Cincinnati , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1909
Place of death Baltimore , Maryland