Artists
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Leutze, Emanuel Gottlieb | ![]()
Emanuel
Gottlieb Leutze (May 24, 1816, Schwäbisch Gmünd – July 18,
1868) was a German American history painter best known for his painting
Washington Crossing the Delaware.
Biography
Philadelphia
Leutze was
born in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Württemberg (Germany), and was brought
to America as a child. His parents settled first in Philadelphia,... | 1816 - 1868 | Anonymous | 05/14/2012 |
Lie, Jonas | ![]()
Jonas Lie
(April 29, 1880 - January 18, 1940) was a Norwegian-born American painter. He
is best known for colorful paintings of coastlines of New England and city
scenes New York City. [1]
Background
Jonas Lie
was born in Moss, in Østfold county, Norway. His father Sverre
Lie, was a civil Norwegian engineer and his mother Helen Augusta Steele,... | 1880 - 1940 | Anonymous | 04/09/2012 |
Longpre, Paul de | ![]()
A famous
French and American flower painter, Paul de Longpre
was the most significant watercolor specialist to arrive in Los Angeles in the
late 19th century and became the city's first major still-life painter. It is
likely he was the first southern California painter to earn a major national
reputation.
He was born
in Lyons, France, where he was... | 1855 - 1911 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
Lorenz, Richard | ![]()
While still
in his middle teens, Richard Lorenz studied sculpture in Germany. Later he
received an art scholarship (endowed by Franz Liszt) to attend the Academy of
Fine Arts in Weimar, Germany to study drawing. While there, he twice received
the school's highest award.
Lorenz was
recruited in Germany to come to America, and in the spring of... | 1858 - 1915 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
Low, William Hillock | ![]()
William
Hillock Low was a prominent force in the New York art world during the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Known
primarily as a muralist, Low studied with the French neo-classicist painter,
Jean-Léon-Gérôme
during the 1870s. Although the artist created a number of works in the style of
his teacher, he eventually expanded his... | 1853 - 1932 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
Luks, George | ![]()
George
Benjamin Luks, (August 13, 1867–October 29, 1933) was an American realist
artist and illustrator. His vigorously painted genre paintings of urban
subjects are examples of the Ashcan school in American art.
Early life
Luks was
born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, to Central European immigrants. His father
was a physician and his mother was... | 1866 - 1933 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
Lungren, Fernand Harvey | ![]()
Painter and
illustrator Fernand Lungren
is best known for vibrantly colored images of the scenic wonders of the
American Southwest. Lungren was born in Hagerstown,
Maryland, but grew up in Toledo, Ohio. In 1876, he abandoned his studies in
mining engineering at the University of Michigan and went to Cincinnati. There,
painters Alfred Laurens... | 1857 - 1932 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
Lamb, A.A. | ![]()
No
documents about A. A. Lamb or other paintings by him have been discovered. His
sympathetic treatment of the subject of the National Gallery's painting
Emancipation Proclamation (1955.11.10) suggests he was a Northerner, perhaps
from New York, where he could have known the Henry K. Brown statue of George
Washington used as a model for the figure... | Born 1864 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
Leganger, Nikolay Tysland | ![]()
Little is
known of Leganger except that he was active in both
New York City and Boston. He
exhibited at the Brooklyn Art Association between 1871 and 1882. He also exhibited at the National Academy
of Design in 1891, giving his address as Newton Center, MA. His work was represented at an important
sale of paintings at Noyes and Blakeslee in... | 1832 - 1905 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
Laux, August | ![]()
German born
August Laux achieved a considerable reputation in the
1870s for his frescoes and decorative paintings, but switched to genre scenes
and still lifes a decade later. His work, always
traditional in style, was highly regarded in his day but forgotten soon after
his death.
He was born
in the Pfalz area of the Rhineland in 1847 to... | 1847 - 1921 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |