Julius Rolshoven

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Julius Rolshoven in his Paris studio, between 1890 and 1895

Julius Rolshoven (born October 28, 1858 in Detroit , † December 7, 1930 in New York City ) was an American portrait , genre and landscape painter .

Life

Rolshoven grew up as the second of three children of Frederick Rolshoven (1827–1906) and his wife Maria Therese Hubertina, nee. Hellings (1839–1930), in Detroit, Michigan . His father, Frederick Rolshoven, was a German-born master goldsmith who founded one of Detroit's leading jewelry stores. With his father, Rolshoven visited the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876 . The impressions received there reinforced his desire to become a painter. Rejected by the National Academy of Design in New York City , Julius Rolshoven began studying at the Cooper Arts School , also in New York City, at the age of 18 .

In 1877 he moved to the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where he was a student of Heinrich Lauenstein and Hugo Crola until 1878 . Then he enrolled in the Munich Royal Academy of Fine Arts . Ludwig von Löfftz and the American Frank Duveneck taught him there . With other Duveneck students who, like him, came from the United States, such as John White Alexander and Joseph DeCamp , he is therefore counted among the Duveneck Boys in art history . Together they traveled to Venice , where they stayed for about a year. From 1883 to 1884 he stayed in Florence as a pupil of Duveneck . 1884 moved to Paris . There he attended the Académie Julian under Tony Robert-Fleury and William Adolphe Bouguereau . On March 10, 1887, in Florence, he married Anna Eliza Chickering (1859-1896), the daughter of George Harvey Chickering (1830-1899), co-owner of the piano manufacturing company Chickering & Sons . Rolshoven took part in the Paris World Exhibition in 1889 and won a silver medal. He also exhibited at the world exhibitions in Chicago in 1893 and Paris in 1900 . In 1896 he moved to London , where his first wife, who had no children, died on December 5th. In 1902 he went back to Florence and led a painting class. In 1910 he traveled to Tunisia .

In 1914, because of the First World War , he moved to Taos (New Mexico) with his second wife, Harriette Haynes Blazo (* 1877), whom he married on December 1, 1915 in Los Angeles , and became a member of the Taos Society of Artists in the artists' colony there . In 1916 he went to Santa Fe (New Mexico) , where he had a studio in the Palace of the Governors . Between 1920 and his death, he moved between living in Florence, Detroit and Santa Fe. After arriving in Manhattan in October 1930 from a stay in Florence , he fell seriously ill and was admitted to New York's St. Luke's Hospital. There he died on December 7th. Rolshoven's grave is in Elmwood Cemetery, Detroit.

Works (selection)

Female nude, reading , around 1900
Tao War Chief , undated

Under the influence of the aestheticism of his time, Rolshoven painted in the style of academic art . His female nudes and portraits are best known, as are the portraits he created of the Pueblo Indians in New Mexico .

  • Young women in the Assisi Market (Assisi Market Girls) , around 1890
  • Female nude, reading (model reading) , around 1900
  • Poppy field (Field of Poppies) , around 1900
  • The Refectory of San Damiano, Assisi , c. 1907, Detroit Institute of the Arts
  • Indian Market , circa 1917, American Museum of Western Art, Denver
  • The Wounded Warrior's Return , oil on canvas, c. 1920
  • The Dilettante (Dilettante) , around 1920, El Paso Museum of Art

literature

  • Rolshoven, Julius . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume II, Dresden 1898, p. 463
  • Virginia C. Leavitt: Julius Rolshoven (1858-1930) . In: J. Gray Sweeney, Nancy K. Anderson (Eds.): Artists of Michigan from the Nineteenth Century , Muskegon Museum of Art, 1987, p. 148
  • Rolshoven, Julius . In: Caryn Hannan: Michigan Biographical Dictionary , Somerset Publishers, St. Clair Shores / Michigan 1998, ISBN 0-403-0-9801-7 , Volume 2, pp. 213 f. ( Google Books )

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julius Rolshoven papers, 1873–1985 . Data sheet in the portal siris-archives.si.edu , accessed on December 1, 2015
  2. ^ Art of The American West: Session II of Heritage Auction No. 652: May 24-25, 2007. Dallas, Texas: Lots 24001-24071 . Heritage Auctions Inc., Dallas / Texas 2007, p. 22 ( Google Books )
  3. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immrheiser, 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. 438
  4. ↑ Julius C. Rolshoven , website in the findeagrave.com portal , accessed on February 26, 2017
  5. ^ Julius Rolshoven , website in the owingsgallery.com portal , accessed on November 30, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Rolshoven, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American portrait, genre, and landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit
DATE OF DEATH 7th December 1930
Place of death New York City