Frank Duveneck
Frank Duveneck | |
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Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. | |
Education | Royal Academy of Munich |
Known for | Painter; teacher |
Movement | Orientalist, Realist |
Spouse |
Frank Duveneck (né Decker; October 9, 1848 – January 3, 1919) was an American figure and portrait painter.
Early life
Duveneck was born in Covington, Kentucky, the son of German immigrant Bernhard Decker.[1] Decker died in a cholera epidemic when Frank was only a year old, and his widow remarried Joseph "Squire" Duveneck. By the age of 15, Frank had begun the study of art under the tutelage of a local painter, Johann Schmitt, and had been apprenticed to a German firm of church decorators.[2]
While having grown up in Covington, Duveneck was a part of the German community in
Career
In 1869, he went abroad to study with Wilhelm von Diez and Wilhelm Leibl at the Royal Academy of Munich, where he learned a dark, realistic, and direct style of painting. He subsequently became one of the young American painters—others were William Merritt Chase, John Henry Twachtman, Willis Seaver Adams, and Walter Shirlaw—who in the 1870s overturned the traditions of the Hudson River School and started a new art movement[4] characterized by a greater freedom of paint application.
Success
His work, at first ignored in Covington, attracted great attention when shown at the Boston Art Club in 1875, and pupils flocked to him in Germany and Italy, where he made long visits.[4] Henry James called him "the unsuspected genius", and at the age of 27, he was a celebrated artist. In 1878, Duveneck opened a school in Munich, and in the village of Polling in Bavaria. His students, known as the "Duveneck Boys", included John Twachtman, Otto Henry Bacher, Julius Rolshoven, and John White Alexander.[5]
Following the death of his wife in March 1888, he returned to America from Italy and gave some attention to
Among his most famous paintings are Lady with Fan (1873) and The Whistling Boy (1872), both of which reveal Duveneck's debt to the dark palette and slashing brushwork of
Personal life
On March 25, 1886, Duveneck married one of his students, who was much admired by Henry James, Boston-born Elizabeth Boott. The two had been engaged off and on since 1881.[10] They lived in Villa Castellani in Florence (where she had been raised) for two years. Together, they were the parents of a son, Frank Boott Duveneck. She died in Paris of pneumonia, and Duveneck reportedly was devastated. Later, Duveneck often spent summers in Gloucester, Massachusetts, visiting his son and painting en plein air.[3]
After his death in
Gallery
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The Cobbler's Apprentice (1877), oil on canvas, Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio
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Major Dillard H. Clark (1877), oil on canvas, formerly Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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Elizabeth Boott (1887), oil on canvas, Cincinnati Art Museum. Mrs. Duveneck wearing her wedding dress.
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Portrait of a Woman with Black Hat (1890)
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Portrait of Winslow Homer (c. 1890), private collection
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Reclining Nude (1892), oil on canvas,Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
See also
References
- ^ "Frank and Elizabeth Boott Duveneck papers, 1851-1972, bulk 1851-1919". Smithsonian Archives of American Art. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
- JSTOR 1593857.
- ^ ISBN 0-8142-0899-1.
- ^ a b c Chisholm 1911.
- ^ Biography, Smithsonian Archives of American Art
- ISBN 978-0-9790971-0-2.
- ^ "Art inventories catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museum". Siris-artinventories.si.edu. 1936-06-21. Retrieved 2013-12-03.
- ISBN 0-403-09981-1.
- ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Duveneck, Frank". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 30 (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company. p. 868.
- ^ Hirshler, Erica E. (2001). A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston 1870-1940. MFA Publications. pp. 175–176.
- ISBN 0813108659. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
- ^ Heermann, Norman (1918). Frank Duveneck. Houghton Mifflin. Archived from the original on 2005-03-08. Retrieved 2008-11-22.
Further reading
- Poole, Emily. "The Etchings of Frank Duveneck", The Print Collector's Quarterly, October 1938, Vol. 25, No. 3, p. 313.
- Poole, Emily. "Catalogue of the Etchings of Frank Duveneck", The Print Collector's Quarterly, December 1938, Vol. 5, No. 4, p. 447.
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Duveneck, Frank". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 737. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
External links
- Media related to Paintings by Frank Duveneck at Wikimedia Commons
- Frank Duveneck at Find a Grave
- Works by Duveneck at the Cincinnati Art Museum.
- www.artistarchive.com Poole catalogue of 30 prints with a description of each and some images.