Frederick Dielman
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| Born | 25 December 1847  Hanover |
| Died | 15 August 1935 (aged 87) Ridgefield |
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Frederick Dielman (25 December 1847 – 15 August 1935) was a German-American portrait and figure painter.
Biography
Dielman was born in
He opened a studio in
In 1899, Dielman was elected president of the National Academy of Design.[2] In 1903, he became professor of drawing at the College of the City of New York and about the same time was made director of the art schools at Cooper Union.
He made major contributions to deluxe editions of works by Longfellow, Hawthorne, George Eliot, and other writers, and to the various publications of the Tile Club, of which he was a member. His mural decorations and mosaic panels for the Library of Congress in Washington are notable. Among his pictures shown at National Academy exhibitions were The Patrician Lad (1877), Young Gamblers (1885), and a Head (1886). One of the best known of his illustrations is A Girl I Know.[1]
He died at his home in Ridgefield, Connecticut on 15 August 1935.[3]
Notes
- ^ a b c Wilson & Fiske 1900.
- ^ Chisholm 1911.
- ^ "Frederick Dielman, Noted Artist, Dead". The Boston Globe. Norwalk, Connecticut. AP. 15 August 1935. p. 6. Retrieved 13 March 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 209.
- Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). . Encyclopedia Americana.
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