John Enneking: 62 Masterpieces E-Book

Maria Tsaneva

• Herausgeber: Maria Tsaneva
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

John Joseph Enneking (1841 – 1916) was an American Impressionist painter. Enneking is a plein air painter, and his favorite subject is the November twilight of New England, and more generally the half lights of early spring, late autumn, and winter dawn and evening. He was a member of the Twentieth Century Club, Pudding Stone Club, Hyde Park Historical Society, Boston Art Club, Paint and Clay Club of Boston, and the Boston Guild of Artists. He exhibited at the following: Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association, Boston (medals); Paris Expo, 1900 (prize); Pan-Am Expo in Buffalo, 1901 (medal); Pan-Pacific Expo in San Francisco, 1915 (gold). Enneking made several painting trips to the White Mountains and became the artist-in-residence at Wilson Cottages and later in the Iron Mountain House. His work has been preserved at the Worcester Museum and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

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John Enneking:62Masterpieces

ByMaria Tsaneva

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Foreword

John Joseph Enneking (1841 –1916) was an American Impressionist painter.Enneking is a plein air painter, and his favorite subject is the November twilight of New England, and more generally the half lights of early spring, late autumn, and winter dawn and evening. Hewas a member of the Twentieth Century Club, Pudding Stone Club, Hyde Park Historical Society, Boston Art Club, Paint and Clay Club of Boston, and the Boston Guild of Artists.He exhibited at the following:Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association, Boston (medals); Paris Expo, 1900 (prize); Pan-Am Expo in Buffalo, 1901 (medal); Pan-Pacific Expo in San Francisco, 1915 (gold).Enneking made several painting trips to the White Mountains and became the artist-in-residence at Wilson Cottages andlaterinthe Iron Mountain House.His work has been preserved at the Worcester Museum and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

Enneking was born of German ancestry in Minster, Ohio.When Enneking was orphaned at the age of 16, he left his father's farm to live with an aunt.His first art lessons, taken at Mount St. Mary's College in Cincinnati, were interrupted when he enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War. Severely wounded in action and discharged from service, Enneking eventually made his way to Boston to continue art lessons.

For a time he studied industrial drawing and lithography, but dropped it when his eyes weakened.Tinsmithing proved more profitable, and while he flourished at this occupation he married and built alarge home in Hyde Park, MA.

He became a partner in a wholesale establishment that soon after failed, and again Enneking returned to art.His efforts finally met success, and by the time he sailed for Europe in 1872, his careeras an artist had been assured.Enneking sudied with Bonnat and Daubigny in Paris from 1873 to1876 and with Lehr in Munich.An 1873 sketch of Madame Monet bears evidence of his work as perhaps America’s earliest impressionist painter. But he also knew Edouard Manet (1824-1898), and studied with Eugene Boudin (1824-1898).After studying in Europe, he returned to Boston in 1876 and opened a studio.His later style became much more impressionistic, losing much of the grandeur of his earlier European teachers.

Enneking died at Bostonin 1916.

Paintingsand Drawings

Tranquility at Sunset, 1879

Oil on canvas

Detail

Bailing his Rowboat, 1889

Oil on canvas