John Whetton Ehninger

John Whetton Ehninger , also John Whetten Ehninger (born July 22, 1827 in New York City , New York , † January 22, 1889 in Saratoga , New York), was an American painter and illustrator of the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Ehninger, son of fur trader George Ehninger (* 1792), a nephew of John Jacob Astor , and his wife Elizabeth (Eliza) Whetten (1804-1884), grew up in New York City, where he in 1847 to study art at Columbia University ended . After a stay with the painter Thomas Couture in Paris , he studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1848 to 1849 . There he was in particular a student of Karl Ferdinand Sohn . In 1848 he joined the artists' association Malkasten , which at the time served as a meeting place for a colony of American painters. Even Emanuel Leutze , Worthington Whittredge and Richard Caton Woodville belonged to this circle. In 1849 Ehninger left Düsseldorf to get to know other art centers in Europe. He was particularly interested in the old masters of painting. Ehninger returned to the United States in 1853 at the latest. He settled in his hometown of New York City, where he worked and exhibited for six years and became a full member of the National Academy of Design in 1860 , having been an associate member there since 1855. From 1857 Ehninger experimented with the glass cliché printing technique. The result, his volume Autograph Etchings by American Artists published in 1859 with prints of pictures by well-known American artists, among them Asher Brown Durand , Eastman Johnson , John Frederick Kensett , Emanuel Leutze and Sanford Robinson Gifford , was not very successful, so he used this technique gave up. After another trip to Europe, Ehninger settled in Newport (Rhode Island) , a summer residence of wealthy New York citizens, where he took over the studio of William Morris Hunt . In 1872 he moved to Saratoga, New York, where he spent the rest of his life. Ehninger's wife was Katherine Beach. One of Ehninger's art dealers was Samuel Putnam Avery .

Works (selection)

Christmas Tree , illustration in Harper's Bazaar magazine, 1870

Ehninger mainly created genre pictures , but also portraits and landscape paintings as well as a number of illustrations:

1849: Illustrations for Thomas Hood's The bridge of sighs , 1845
1850: Illustrations for Washington Irving's Dolph Heyliger in: Bracebridge Hall , 1822
1850: Peter Stuyvesant , painting after Washington Irvings A History of New York , 1809
1855: New England Farmyard , painting
1858: Eight illustrations for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Courtship of Miles Standish , 1858, photographed by Mathew B. Brady
1859: Autograph Etchings by American Artists , a volume with graphics after pictures by American artists in glass cliché print
Yankee Peddler , painting
Love me, love my horse , painting
The Foray , painting
The Sword , painting
Lady Jane Gray , painting
Christ Healing the Sick , painting
Death and the Gambler , painting
1863: Old Kentucky Home , painting as a reprise of Eastman Johnson's southern genre painting Negro Life at the South (Old Kentucky Home) , 1859, based on Harriet Beecher Stowe's uncle Tom's cabin
1867: Autumnal Landscape , painting
1870: Christmas Tree , illustration in Harper's Bazaar magazine

1871: Monk , painting

1877: Vintage in the Valtella , painting

1878: Twilight from the Bridge of Pau , painting

1879: Turkey Shoot at Saratoga Springs , painting

Web links

John Whetten Ehninger , short biography in the portal americanart.si.edu

John Whetten Ehninger , gallery in the americangallery.wordpress.com portal

John Whetten Ehninger , auction results on the portal invaluable.co.uk

John Whetten Ehninger , auction results on the arcadja.com portal

John Whetton Ehninger , portrait photo around 1868 in the collections.mcny.org portal(Museum of the City of New York)

literature

Ehninger, John Whetton . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon . Verlag des Biographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 155 ( digitized version )
Edmund von Mach : Ehninger, John Whetton . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 10 : Dubolon – Erlwein . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 392 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Individual evidence

↑ Jane Thompson-Stahr: The Burling Books. Ancestors and Descendents of Edward and Grace Burling, Quakers [1600-2000] . Vol. 1, Gateway Press, Baltimore 2001, ISBN 0-9613104-0-5 , pp. 634 f. ( Google Books )
^ Philipp Ashton Rollins (Ed.): The Discovery of the Oregon Trail. Robert Stuart's Narratives of His Overland Trip Eastwards from Astoria in 1812-13 . University of Nebraska Press, 1995, ISBN 0-8032-9234-1 , footnote 5, p. 17 ( Google Books )
^ Columbia University: Catalog of the Governors, Trustees, and Officers, and of the Alumni and Other Graduates of Columbia College (Originally King's College), in the City of New York from 1754 to 1867 . New York 1868, p. 71 ( Google Books )
↑ Bettina Baumgärtel, Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Sabine Baumgärtel (Ed.): 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. 429
↑ Sabine Schroyen: “A true brotherhood seems to reign among them.” The artists' association Malkasten and its international members . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Ed.), Volume 1, p. 274 f.
↑ Kevin J. Avery: American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art . The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2002, ISBN 1-58839-060-8 , Volume 1 (A Catalog of Works by Artists Born before 1835) , p. 310 ( Google Books )
↑ Kimberly Schenck: Cliché-verre: Drawing and Photography . In: Topics in Photographic Preservation . Vol. 6, Washington / DC 1995, p. 114 ( PDF )
^ William H. Gerdts: Art Across America. Two Centuries of Regional Painting 1710–1920 . Abbeville Press, New York 1990, ISBN 978-1-5585-9033-5 , Volume 1, p. 90 ( Google Books )
↑ Article Ehninger, John Whetton . In: James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (Eds.): Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography , New York 1900 ( Wikisource )
↑ Jane Thompson-Stahr, p. 635
↑ Madeleine Fidell-Beaufort: Avery, Samuel P. In: Joan M. Marter (Ed.): The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art . Oxford University Press, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-533579-8 , Volume 1, p. 179 ( Google Books )
↑ Andrew Hilen (Ed.): The Letters of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow . Harvard University Press, Cambridge / Massachusetts 1972, Vol. IV, p. 102 ( Google Books )
↑ Lee M. Edwards, Jan Seidler Ramirez, Timothy Anglin Burgard: Domestic Bliss. Family Life in American Painting 1840-1910 . The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers (New York) 1986, p. 135 ( Google Books )
^ Jo-Ann Morgan: Uncle Tom's Cabin as Visual Culture . University of Missouri Press, Columbia / Missouri 2007, ISBN 978-0-8262-1715-8 , p. 172 ( Google Books )

personal data
SURNAME	Ehninger, John Whetton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ehninger, John Whetten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American painter and illustrator from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH	July 22, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH	New York City , New York
DATE OF DEATH	January 22, 1889
Place of death	Saratoga , New York

[1] Jane Thompson-Stahr: The Burling Books. Ancestors and Descendents of Edward and Grace Burling, Quakers [1600-2000] . Vol. 1, Gateway Press, Baltimore 2001, ISBN 0-9613104-0-5 , pp. 634 f. ( Google Books )

[2] Philipp Ashton Rollins (Ed.): The Discovery of the Oregon Trail. Robert Stuart's Narratives of His Overland Trip Eastwards from Astoria in 1812-13 . University of Nebraska Press, 1995, ISBN 0-8032-9234-1 , footnote 5, p. 17 ( Google Books )

[3] Columbia University: Catalog of the Governors, Trustees, and Officers, and of the Alumni and Other Graduates of Columbia College (Originally King's College), in the City of New York from 1754 to 1867 . New York 1868, p. 71 ( Google Books )

[4] Bettina Baumgärtel, Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Sabine Baumgärtel (Ed.): 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. 429

[5] Sabine Schroyen: “A true brotherhood seems to reign among them.” The artists' association Malkasten and its international members . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Ed.), Volume 1, p. 274 f.

[6] Kevin J. Avery: American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art . The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2002, ISBN 1-58839-060-8 , Volume 1 (A Catalog of Works by Artists Born before 1835) , p. 310 ( Google Books )

[7] Kimberly Schenck: Cliché-verre: Drawing and Photography . In: Topics in Photographic Preservation . Vol. 6, Washington / DC 1995, p. 114 ( PDF )

[8] William H. Gerdts: Art Across America. Two Centuries of Regional Painting 1710–1920 . Abbeville Press, New York 1990, ISBN 978-1-5585-9033-5 , Volume 1, p. 90 ( Google Books )

[9] Article Ehninger, John Whetton . In: James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (Eds.): Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography , New York 1900 ( Wikisource )

[10] Jane Thompson-Stahr, p. 635

[11] Madeleine Fidell-Beaufort: Avery, Samuel P. In: Joan M. Marter (Ed.): The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art . Oxford University Press, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-533579-8 , Volume 1, p. 179 ( Google Books )

[12] Andrew Hilen (Ed.): The Letters of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow . Harvard University Press, Cambridge / Massachusetts 1972, Vol. IV, p. 102 ( Google Books )

[13] Lee M. Edwards, Jan Seidler Ramirez, Timothy Anglin Burgard: Domestic Bliss. Family Life in American Painting 1840-1910 . The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers (New York) 1986, p. 135 ( Google Books )

[14] Jo-Ann Morgan: Uncle Tom's Cabin as Visual Culture . University of Missouri Press, Columbia / Missouri 2007, ISBN 978-0-8262-1715-8 , p. 172 ( Google Books )