William Stanley Haseltine

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William Stanley Haseltine (born June 11, 1835 in Philadelphia , PA ; † February 3, 1900 in Rome , Italy ) was an American landscape painter in the tradition of the Düsseldorf School and the Hudson River School .

Career

Haseltine was born to successful businessman John Haseltine and his wife Elizabeth Stanley Shinn. He and his brothers James Henry Haseltine, who later became a sculptor, and Charles Field Haseltine, who later founded the Haseltine Art Galleries , were born with art through their mother, who was an amateur landscape painter. Haseltine's son Herbert Chevalier Haseltine (1877–1962) was also to become a sculptor.

Haseltine graduated from Harvard University in 1854, where he began studying in 1852 after studying at the University of Pennsylvania two more years earlier . For a short time he took lessons in Philadelphia with the German painter Paul Weber , where he met the painter William Trost Richards in 1853 . In the spring of 1855 Haseltine made her debut in an exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts . Haseltine traveled with Weber to Düsseldorf in the summer of 1855 , where he studied privately with Andreas Achenbach and Emanuel Leutze . He also received artistic impulses from the aftermath of Johann Wilhelm Schirmer , who, as a professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , had shaped the landscape painting there until 1854. In 1856 Richards also came to Düsseldorf. In 1856/1857 Haseltine was a member of the Düsseldorf artists' association Malkasten , where a group of American painters had formed. With Leutze, Albert Bierstadt and Worthington Whittredge in 1856 he undertook a long study trip to the Rhine , Ahr and Nahe and across Switzerland to northern Italy . Another trip took him to Rome, where he took part in the “Cervarofest” of the German Artists' Association on April 22, 1857 , and in the spring of 1858 to the island of Capri , whose magic is said to have touched him deeply. According to his daughter and biographer Helen Haseltine Plowden (1873–1977), he stayed in an old monastery on a mountain on subsequent visits. It would Nazarene which Haseltine by Oswald Achenbach had his teacher Andreas Achenbach met the brother, discovered for scenic purposes.

After a Shower, Nahant , Massachusetts , about 1864

In late 1858 he returned to the United States, where he was elected associate in 1860 and full member of the National Academy of Design in 1861 . From 1859 he lived for a time in New York City , where he established himself for the first time in the artist house The Tenth Street Studio Building , next to Frederic Edwin Church and his colleagues from Düsseldorf, Bierstadt and Whittredge. He shared a studio with Bierstadt . From there he went on study trips to New England , the Delaware River and other picturesque areas of the US east coast. He showed particular interest in geological formations and their theories of origin, which is expressed in the painterly detailed rendering of rock structures. In his painting style and composition, he took on the characteristics later referred to as luminism in many of his pictures .

In 1864, Helen Lane, his first wife, whom he married in 1860, died in childbirth. In early 1866 he married again, his girlfriend Helen Marshall (1836-1926). Marshall's nephew was the future landscape painter Howard Russell Butler (1856-1934), who stayed for some time in Haseltine's New York studio.

In May 1866, Haseltine moved to France with his family . In Paris he was in contact with representatives of the Barbizon School and exhibited in the salon . Although he had considered staying in the French art metropolis, he settled in Rome in 1869. There was also a large artist colony there, including many compatriots. In the years 1872 and 1873 he was a member of the German Art Association in Rome. He painted landscapes with great economic and artistic success, primarily for an American audience. He spent the rest of his life largely in Rome, where the 64-year-old died in 1900 from pneumonia.

In 1874 he moved into an elegant studio and apartment in the Palazzo Altieri . It quickly developed into a social meeting place for American visitors. Until the 1890s, Haseltine advanced to become a central figure on the international art scene. From Rome he made frequent trips within Europe, for example to Sicily and Venice , Bavaria and Tyrol , Switzerland and the Netherlands , Belgium and France. For a long time he interrupted his stay in Rome in the 1870s and in the period from 1895 to 1899 in order to work again in the United States. In the years 1873/1874 he rented a studio again in The Tenth Street Studio Building in New York . He worked in Boston in the winter of 1896 , and in 1899 took his son Herbert on a trip to the American West and Alaska . A sought-after art expert and successful artist, he was inducted into the art committee of the World's Columbian Exposition , which took place in Chicago in 1893 . As early as 1864 he was a member of the committee that was preparing an exhibition of paintings, sculptures, old furniture, autographs, etc. for the Sanitary Fair in New York. Haseltine was also a member of New York's Century Association and the Salmagundi Club , the Kunstverein Munich and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome.

Haseltine was buried next to his sons Stanley Lane Haseltine (1861–1879) and Charles Marshall Haseltine (1866–1875) in the Protestant cemetery in Rome. Haseltine's daughter Mildred Stanley Haseltine (1879-1946) married Prince Ludovico Rospigliosi (1881-1917) in 1904.

Works (selection)

gallery

Web links

Commons : William Stanley Haseltine  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Helen Haseltine Plowden: William Stanley Haseltine . Frederick Muller, London 1947.
  • Wend von Kalnein (ed.): The Düsseldorf school of painting. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , pp. 322, 323. (Catalog numbers 89, 90)
  • John Wilmerding: William Stanley Haseltine (1835-1900): Drawings of a Painter . Essay in the catalog of the same name in the exhibition from March 5 to April 2, 1983 at the Davis & Langdale Company, New York. (Reprinted in: Resource Library. March 16, 2005 (online) )
  • Marc Simpson, Andrea Henderson, Sally Mills: Expressions of Place. The Art of William Stanley Haseltine . Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 1992.
  • David Bernard Dearinger (Ed.): Paintings and Sculptures in the Collection of the National Academy of Design . Hudson Hills Press, Manchester / Vermont 2004, ISBN 1-55595-029-9 , pp. 254 f.
  • Sabine Morgen: The radiation of the Düsseldorf school to America in the 19th century - Düsseldorf pictures in America and American painters in Düsseldorf . (= Göttingen Contributions to Art History. Volume 2). Edition Ruprecht, 2008, ISBN 978-3-7675-3059-1 , pp. 672 ff., 797 ff. ( Table of contents, PDF )
  • Bettina Baumgärtel (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its International Radiance 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, pp. 35, 194, 196, 279, 347, 364, 365, 373, 431, Volume 2, p. 385 (catalog No. 323)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herbert Haseltine in the English language Wikipedia
  2. ↑ David Bernard Dearinger (ed.): Paintings and Sculptures in the Collection of the National Academy of Design . Hudson Hills Press, Manchester / Vermont 2004, ISBN 1-55595-029-9 , pp. 254 f. (on-line)
  3. ^ William Trost Richards in the English language Wikipedia
  4. ^ Nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "H" / Haseltine, William Stanley NA 1861 ( Memento of April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed June 26, 2015)
  5. ^ Tenth Street Studio Building in the English language Wikipedia
  6. ↑ Paul tether (ed.): Smith College Museum of Art European and American Painting and Sculpture 1760-1960. . Hudson Hills Press, New York / NY 2000, ISBN 1-55595-194-5 , p. 170 (online)
  7. ↑ Elizabeth K. Allen: Open-air Scetching. Nineteenth-century American Landscape Drawings in the Albany Institute of History & Art . Exhibition catalog, Albany / NY 1998, p. 16 (online)
  8. ^ Howard Russell Butler in the English language Wikipedia
  9. ↑ David Bernard Dearinger, p. 78 (online)
  10. ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 241
  11. ^ Ulrich Pohlmann: The Düsseldorf School of Painting and Photography. In: Bettina Baumgärtel, Volume 1, p. 347.
  12. ^ Century Association in the English language Wikipedia
  13. ^ Salmagundi Club in the English language Wikipedia
  14. ↑ Wend von Kalnein, p. 322.
  15. ^ Kathrin DuBois: William Stanley Haseltine (catalog no. 322). In: Bettina Baumgärtel, Volume 2, p. 385.
  16. ^ David Bernard Dieringer, pp. 254 f.
  17. ^ Natalie Spassky (with Linda Bantel, Doreen Bolger Burke, Meg Perlman and Amy L. Walsh): American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art . Volume II, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1985, ISBN 0-87099-439-5 , pp. 397 f. (on-line)
  18. ↑ Information on zona prima at: Il Cimitero Acattolico , website in the portal cemeteryrome.it , accessed on September 20, 2014.
  19. ↑ See also image of Haseltine's tomb on William Stanley Haseltine , website in the findagrave.com portal , accessed on September 21, 2014.
  20. ↑ Explanation of pictures (catalog no. 89) in Wend von Kalnein, p. 323.
  21. ↑ Explanation of the pictures by Kathrin DuBois: The sea near Capri, 1875. In: Bettina Baumgärtel, Volume 2, p. 385.
  22. ↑ Explanation of the pictures (Catalog No. 90) in Wend von Kalnein, p. 323.
personal data
SURNAME Haseltine, William Stanley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , PA
DATE OF DEATH 3rd February 1900
Place of death Rome , Italy