Julius Robert Hoening

Julius Robert Hoening (born May 30, 1835 in Elberfeld , Rhine Province ; † May 24, 1904 in Covington , Louisiana ) was a German-American portrait and landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School . He also worked as a decorative painter and photographer .

Life

Crossroad in the Forest , New Orleans Museum of Art

Hoening studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy before emigrating to the United States in 1858 . From January 1860 to 1904 he was active in New Orleans . There he shared a studio with the photographers B. & G. Moses and taught drawing with ink and chalk as well as watercolor, oil and pastel painting . In 1885 he founded the art school of the Artists' Association of New Orleans together with Paul Poincy and Andres Molinary (1847-1915).

Hoening was best known for his portraits, but also painted landscapes and animals. He partly combined painting and photography and was awarded a silver medal for the best colored photos in oil and a bronze medal for the best photos in ink at the Grand State Fair in 1870. He later took on commissions for frescoes , both for private households and public institutions such as the French Opera House.

literature

Hoening, Jr. Julius Robert . In: Katharina Bott : German artists in America, 1813–1913 . Publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar 1996, ISBN 3-932124-03-0 , p. 100.
Hoening, Julius Robert. In: John A. Mahe, Rosanne McCaffrey: Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists 1718-1918. The Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans 1987, ISBN 0-917860-23-3 , pp. 186-187.

Web links

Commons : Julius Robert Hoening - collection of images, videos and audio files

Hoening, Julius Robert , search results in the portal louisianadigitallibrary.org
Julius Robert Hoening , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de

Individual evidence

^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )

personal data
SURNAME	Hoening, Julius Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-American portrait painter and landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH	May 30, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH	Elberfeld , Rhine Province
DATE OF DEATH	May 24, 1904
Place of death	Covington , Louisiana

[1] Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )