Louis Michel Eilshemius

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Self-Portrait (1882)
Afternoon Wind (1899)

Louis Michel Eilshemius (born February 4, 1864 in Newark, New Jersey ; died December 29, 1941 in New York City ) was an American painter.

Life

Eilshemius grew up in an upper-class family in New Jersey and was able to live on the family's fortune. He attended business school in Dresden and began studying agriculture at Cornell University in 1882 . After two years he switched to the Art Students League of New York to study art and studied painting with Kenyon Cox, among others . He learned landscape painting with Robert Crannell Minor (1839-1904) and in 1886 he went to William-Adolphe Bouguereau at the Académie Julian in Paris and in 1887 to Joseph Van Luppen in Antwerp . He traveled through Europe, North Africa and in 1900 to Samoa . He lived and worked on East 57th Street in New York.

Eilshemius initially painted in the style of the Barbizon school . From 1900 he shared with Albert Pinkham Ryder the sense of eccentricity and the fantastic. From 1910 he painted large-format female nudes. He also created cityscapes of New York.

Eilshemius created over 3000 pictures, three quarters of which were nudes in a landscape . He wrote poems, short stories and novels and also dabbled as a composer. In 1907 he published a six-volume complete work of his poetics, including a 508-page treatise Fragments and Flashes of Thought . In total, he published over 30 self-published books and tried to publish two art magazines.

Eilshemius' style of painting was not well received by the public or critics. Marcel Duchamp , who was twenty years his junior, discovered him at an exhibition in Paris in 1917. Henri-Pierre Roché owned the painting The Prodigy (1914), which Balthus suggested to imitate. After Eilshemius was not well received in an exhibition at the Société Anonyme in New York in 1920 , he almost completely stopped painting, devoted himself to self-presentation and wrote provocative letters to the New York newspapers in series. In a car accident in 1932 he became disabled.

Eilshemius' literary and musical oeuvre has been forgotten, meanwhile his painting is occasionally rediscovered and exhibited. Roy Neuberger equipped the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase , founded in 1974, with parts of his collection; in 2004, the museum had 112 works by Eilshemius. The larger museums on the American east coast also have individual pictures, but these hang most of the time in the depot .

  • Louis Michel Eilshemius - sample pictures

  • Adirondacks: Bridge for Fishing (1897)

  • Balcony, Delaware Water Gap (1900)

  • Samoa (1907)

  • Madge in the Morning (1910)

  • New York Roof Tops (1908)

Works (selection)

  • Poetical works of Louis M. Elshemus . New York, The Abbey Press, 1901

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Twenty selected paintings by Eilshemius, an authentic American artist . Valentine Gallery, New York: The Gallery, 1933
  • Paintings by Louis M. Eilshemius . New York: Durand-Ruel Galleries, 1942
  • Masterpieces of Eilshemius . New York: Artists' Gallery, 1959
  • Louis Michel Eilshemius (1864-1941): centenary exhibition, from the beginning, 1864-1964, oils, watercolors, drawings . New York: Florence Lewison Gallery, 1964
  • Sidney Janis : The high-kitsch of Eilshemius at Janis . New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1970
  • Steven Harvey: Louis M. Eilshemius: An Independent Spirit . New York: National Academy of Design , 2001
  • The pamphlet - Louis M. Eilshemius . Göppingen: Kunsthalle Göppingen , 2015
  • Louis Michel Eilshemius: Peer of Poet-Painters . Cully, Switzerland: KMD - Marcel Duchamp Art Gallery | The Forestay Museum of Art , 2015

literature

  • Eilshemius, Louis Michel . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 32, Saur, Munich a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-598-22772-8 , pp. 568-570.
  • Eilshemius, Louis Michel . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 22-23 .
  • Stefan Banz : Louis Michel Eilshemius: Peer of Poet-Painters . Zurich: JRP Ringier Kunstverlag, 2015
  • Stefan Banz  : Louis Michel Eilshemius and his influence on Marcel Duchamp . Vienna: Verlag für Moderne Kunst, 2016
  • Paul J. Karlstrom: Louis Michel Eilshemius . New York: HN Abrams, 1978

Web links

Commons : Louis Michel Eilshemius  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c John Russell (art critic) : Assembling Scattered Works By the Cognoscenti's Painter , in: New York Times , November 28, 2001
  2. ↑ Mitchell Algus, Jay Sanders: We greet you dear Rousseau , in: Texts on Art , September 2008
  3. ↑ Roy R. Neuberger Donates Art in artdaily 10 December, 2004
personal data
SURNAME Eilshemius, Louis Michel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Newark, New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1941
Place of death New York City