William August Shade
William August Shade , also Wilhelm Schade (born November 19, 1848 in New York City , † September 26, 1890 in Switzerland ), was an American portrait and genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
After attending school in Chicago , Shade, the son of parents of German origin, came to Düsseldorf at the age of 19 . He studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1868 to 1878. There Andreas Müller was his teachers in the Antikensaal and Karl Müller in the subject of art history, and he also attended Wilhelm Sohn's painting class from 1870 to 1874 , where he deepened portrait and genre painting. Because of his health, he went to Italy after his studies , where he settled in Rome . At the Berlin Academy exhibition in 1883 he showed a painting “ The evening. Old Roman Idyll ”, in 1888 it received an honorable mention.
Works (selection)
- The small Tantalus (Tantalizing) , Berlin Academy Exhibition 1874
- Portrait of Marie von Oranien-Nassau (1841–1910), Princess von Wied , 1875
- In Dark Dreams , Berlin Academy Exhibition 1876
- My daily visitor (Mon visiteur journalier) , Paris World's Fair 1878
- Portrait of Professor Bokelmann , 1878
- Love Spring , 1881
- Rest on the flight to Egypt
literature
- Shade, William August . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Dresden 1898, Volume 2, p. 744 f.
- Thieme-Becker , Volume XXX (1936), p. 559.
- Petra Gröschel: Shade (Shade), William (Wilhelm) August , in: Hans Paffrath , Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf (Hrsg.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorfer Malerschule . Volume 3, F. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3011-0 , p. 282 (Fig .: " Portrait of Christian Ludwig Bolelmann ", 1878)
Web links
- William August Shade , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
- ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, studies and stay 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. 440
- ↑ Portret van Marie van Oranje-Nassau (1841–1910), 1875 gedateerd , website in the portal rkd.nl (Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie), accessed on June 30, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shade, William August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | What a shame, William August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American portrait and genre painter from the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1848 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 26, 1890 |
| Place of death | Switzerland |