Robert Henri

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Robert Henri,
photograph by Gertrude Käsebier , 1900
Snow in New York , 1902
Portrait of Fay Bainter , 1918

Robert Henri (born June 24, 1865 in Cincinnati , Ohio as Robert Henri Cozad , † August 12, 1929 ) was an American painter .

life and work

Henri was born to Theresa Gatewood Cozad and John Jackson Cozad who worked in the real estate business. The father founded the city of Cozzadale in Ohio in 1871 . In 1873 John Jackson Gozad moved with his family to Nebraska , founded the city of Cozad, and in 1883 moved on to New York , then to Atlantic City . In 1886, Henri studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts . In 1888 he went to Paris to study at the Académie Julian and at the Académie des Beaux-Arts from 1889 to 1891 .

In 1891 Henri returned to Philadelphia. As a member of a group of artists known as The Eight - these were John French Sloan , William Glackens , George Benjamin Luks , Everett Shinn, Ernest Lawson, Arthur B. Davies, and Maurice Prendergast - he rebelled against the academic arts. Together they founded their own art school in New York in 1908, the Ashcan School , from which artists such as Stuart Davis , Arthur Garfield Dove and Joseph Stella emerged .

In 1906 Robert Henri was elected a member ( NA ) of the National Academy of Design and in 1908 of the American Academy of Arts and Letters . In 1909, Henri taught at the New York School of Art , but established his own school, where he taught until 1912. His school attracted many students, including George Bellows , Rockwell Kent and Edward Hopper , on whom he had a great influence, and Norman Raeben .

Together with The Eight , Henri exhibited in the Armory Show in New York in 1913 . From 1915 to 1928 he taught at the Art Students League of New York .

Works (selection)

publication
  • Robert Henri: The Art Spirit. The way to art , German by Antje Korsmeier. Piet Meyer Verlag, Bern 2015, ISBN 978-3-905799-33-0 (first published in 1923)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "H" / Henri, Robert NA 1906 ( Memento of April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on June 26, 2015)
  2. ^ Members: Robert Henri. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 3, 2019 .

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Henri, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cozad, Robert Henri (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Cincinnati
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1929