Samuel Frost Johnson
Samuel Frost Johnson (born November 9, 1835 in New York City , † 1879 ) was an American genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Johnson came to Düsseldorf from New York City in 1858 . In the same year he enrolled there at the Royal Prussian Art Academy to study painting. His teachers were Josef Wintergerst , Rudolf Wiegmann , Andreas and Karl Müller and Heinrich Mücke until 1859/1860 . He stayed in Düsseldorf until around 1861/1862. Then he went to Antwerp . From 1865 to 1869 he lived in Écouen near Paris . There he was a student of the genre painter Edouard Frère . In 1869 he took part in the Salon de Paris . Johnson returned to the United States in the 1870s and became a teacher at Saint John's College and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. One of his students was Juliette Gordon Low . At the same time he took part in exhibitions at the National Academy of Design .
literature
- George C. Groce, David H. Wallace: The New-York Historical Society's dictionary of artists in America 1564-1860 . Yale University Press, New Haven 1957, p. 354.
- James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (Eds.): Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography . Gale Research Company, New York 1968, Volume 3, p. 449.
- Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays . Gründ, Paris 1976, Volume VI, p. 86.
Web links
- Frost Johnson , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Samuel Frost Johnson , short biography in the portal peintres-ecouen.com
- Samuel Frost Johnson , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .com
Individual evidence
- ↑ See nos. 6616–6621 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the archive.nrw.de portal ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )
- ↑ 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. 433
- ↑ Stacy A. Cordery: Juliette Gordon Low: The Remarkable Founder of the Girl Scouts . Viking / Penguin Group, New York 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Johnson, Samuel Frost |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American genre painter from the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 9, 1835 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1879 |