Robert Frederick Blum

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Robert Frederick Blum in 1875
Signature of Robert Frederick Blum.jpg
The Ameya, 1893 ( e.g. Tangren , also Amezaiku )

Robert Frederick Blum (born July 9, 1857 in Cincinnati , † June 8, 1903 in New York ) was an American painter and illustrator .

Blum, the son of a German-born cigar manufacturer in Cincinnati, learned there in 1873 at Gibson & Co the profession of a lithographer . He also attended evening classes at the McMicken School of Design (today: Art Academy of Cincinnati ) . In the autumn of 1874, Blum became a student of Frank Duveneck . He then studied painting and graphics with Christian Schussele at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts . In 1879 he illustrated print products for the Scribner publishing house in New York . In 1880 Blum went to Venice and worked there with his friend William Merritt Chase . In Venice, Blum drew and watercolored extremely diligently. James McNeill Whistler , whom he met there, initiated him into Japonism and pastel painting . In 1882 Blum toured Toledo and Madrid and in 1884 the Netherlands. Among the Europeans he was enthusiastic about, for example, the Catalan Marià Fortuny and the Italian Giovanni Boldini .

Blum stayed in Japan from 1890 to 1892 . In 1891 he illustrated Sir Edwin Arnold's (1832–1904) work Japonica . Blum's work from that East Asian period made him known in New York magazines .

For his painting The Venetian Beadstringers , Blum became an Associate Member of the New York National Academy . In 1893 he was elected the youngest member of the academy for his oil painting The Ameya . In 1898 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

In 1895 Blum created the painting Moods to Music for the New York concert hall Mendelssohn Glee Club on behalf of his patron Alfred Corning Clark (1844-1896) .

Blum died of pneumonia .

literature

Web links

Commons : Robert Frederick Blum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Venetian Beadstringers, The Venetian Bead Threaders, 1889
  2. ^ Members: Robert Frederick Blum. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed February 17, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Moods to Music (for example: moods for music , also music and the dance )
personal data
SURNAME Blum, Robert Frederick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Cincinnati
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1903
Place of death new York