Lewis Edward Duke

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Lewis Edward Herzog (born October 15, 1868 in Philadelphia , † May 27, 1943 in Washington, DC ) was an American landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .

life and work

His father, Hermann Ottomar Herzog, was a well-known German painter originally from Bremen, Germany, who moved to Philadelphia in the late 1860s, where Lewis Herzog was born.

Lewis Herzog, also known as Louis, traveled to London, Berlin, Munich and Rome. From 1888 to 1893 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , with Heinrich Lauenstein , Adolf Schill , Hugo Crola , Johann Peter Theodor Janssen and Carl Ernst Forberg , among others . From 1891 to 1893 he attended Eugen Dücker's landscape class there . During his studies he became a member of the student painters' association Tartarus and was called Dux there. From 1893 a longer study trip to Venice followed , initially accompanied by the young painter Alfred Sohn-Rethel . A sketchbook with “Düsseldorf” dated 1888, and another with the inscription “1890”, which contains scenes from Venice, confirms this. In 1897 he took part in the 2nd L'Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, La Biennale di Venezia . In contrast to his father Hermann Herzog, Lewis Herzog developed a bold, painterly style. The picture “Canal in Venice” from 1899 shows a gondola moving quickly in the canal.

Back in the USA , he exhibited his pictures, which were made in Europe from 1893 to 1898, at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts . In 1898, Herzog received an assignment from Harper's Magazine to execute pictures of the Spanish-American War . In 1904 Herzog won a bronze medal at The Saint Louis World's Fair in St. Louis , where he showed the pictures "Mackerel Boats" and "Nantucket Dunes". In 1912, his painting "Quiet Evening" was part of the National Academy of Design Winter Exhibition in New York City .

From 1909 he lived with his family on North Haven Island in Penobscot Bay . During World War I , Herzog worked in an accommodation camouflaged by the US Navy. In 1921 he was represented with the picture "The Midday Hour" at an exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists , and at the Pennsylvania Academy with the picture "Winter Twilight".

Herzog died on a train journey between Quantico , Virginia and Washington, DC on May 27, 1943.

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Individual evidence

  1. 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. 432
  2. ^ Rudolf Theilmann: The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 147
  3. Lewis Edward Herzog 1870-1943, US, group exhibition , at Artfacts, accessed September 22, 2015