Severin Roesen

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Still life, oil on canvas

Severin Roesen (* 5 February 1816 in Boppard , † well in 1872 in the United States ) was a German - American Still Life - painter of the 19th century .

Life

Severin Roesen was baptized on February 5, 1816 in Boppard as the child of geometer Stephan Roesen and Margaretha Krebs and trained as a porcelain and enamel painter . He specialized in floral still lifes in the tradition of Dutch and German painters of the 17th century . In Cologne he also worked as a china dealer. On March 10, 1847, he married Sophia Jacobina Lambricht (* 1824) in Koblenz , who died soon after the wedding. In the same year he exhibited at the Kölnischer Kunstverein . After he was accused of fraudulent bankruptcy, he evaded his creditors, who initiated an investigation against him, which in early 1848 led to his wanted list by emigrating to the United States via Dover in late 1847 .

For several years he lived in New York City , where between 1848 and 1852 he exhibited eleven paintings in the American Art Union . On October 30, 1849, he married his second wife, Wilhelmine Ludwig, born in Alzey in 1831, who gave birth to daughter Minnie in 1854 and son Oscar in 1857. That year he left his family in New York City and went to Pennsylvania , where he lived first in Philadelphia and then in rural German-American milieus in Harrisburg and Huntington, before moving to Williamsport in 1863 , also in Pennsylvania. There he taught still life painting. Among the artists he inspired include the American still life painter John F. Francis (1808–1886). In 1858 Roesen exhibited at the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore , and in 1863 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts . In 1873 his pictures were still on view in the Brooklyn Art Association after he had left Williamsport in 1872 and disappeared without a trace.

Roesen had been largely forgotten by the time First Lady Jacqueline Jackie Kennedy began her first major project by changing the interior of the White House . To this end, she set up a committee in February 1961 . In the newly renovated rooms she had pictures by Severin Roesen hung, which caused his paintings to experience a kind of renaissance in the United States.

Works (selection)

Severin's still lifes show the strong influence of Johann Wilhelm Preyer , the well-known still life painter of the Düsseldorf School :

  • Fruits and flowers , oil on canvas

  • Fruits and flowers , oil on canvas

  • Fruit still life, oil on canvas

  • Fruits with a glass of champagne , oil on canvas

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Severin Roesen . In: Natalie Spassky: American Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art . Volume 2: A Catalog of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845 . Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York / NY, ISBN 978-0-87099-439-5 , p. 108 ( Google Books )
  2. ↑ Profile No. 191 of February 4, 1848. In: Official Gazette of the Royal Government of Düsseldorf . Born in 1848, Düsseldorf, issue no.8 of February 18, 1848, p. 61 ( Google Books )
  3. ↑ Meredith Davis: Server Roesen . In: Joan M. Marter: The Grove Encyclopaedia of American Art , Oxford University Press, New York City 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-533579-8 , Volume 1, p. 292 ( Google Books )

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personal data
SURNAME Roesen, Severin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American still life painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Boppard
DATE OF DEATH after 1872