biografía de Julius Gari MELCHERS (1860-1932)

Lugar de nacimiento: Detroit, MI

Lugar de defunción: Falmouth, VA

Direcciones: Paris, France, 1890-1901; NYC/Falmouth, VA

Profesión: Portrait, genre & mural painter

Estudios: with his father, Julius Melchers; Düsseldorf Acad., 1877-80; Acad. Julian, Paris, with Lefebvre & Boulanger, 1880-86.

Exposiciones: Paris Salon, 1882-83, 1885-88 (hon. men., 1886)[he and J. S. Sargent were the first two Americans to receive this award], 1889 (prize); NAD, 1883-86; PAFA Ann., 1883, 1890-1914, 1921-32 (gold 1896); Amsterdam, 1887 (med.); Munich, 1888 (med.); AIC, 1891 (prize); Berlin, 1891 (med.); SNBA, 1891, 1894-96, 1898-99; Phila. AC, 1892 (gold); Antwerp, 1894 (med.); Vienna, 1896 (med.); Pan-Am. Expo, Buffalo, 1901 (gold); St. Louis Expo, 1904 (gold); Corcoran Gal. biennials, 1907-32 (13 times, incl. silver med., 1910); Sesqui-Centenn. Expo, Phila., 1926 (gold); CI, 1927 (prize); Maryland Inst., 1931 (gold); St. Petersburg Mus. FA, 1990 (retrospective) WMAA. Other awards: Knight of the Order of St. Michael of Bavaria; Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, 1895; Officer, 1904; Prussian Order of Red Eagle 1907; Inst. of France.

Asociaciones: ANA, 1904; NA, 1906; Paris SAP; Soc. Nat. des Beaux-Arts, Paris; Int. Soc. of Artists, London; Munich Secession; Berlin Royal Acad.; NIAL; New Soc. Art; NAC; AFA; Hopkin Cl., Scarab Cl., Detroit, MI

Obra: Luxembourg Mus., Paris; CGA; CI; PAFA; NGA; Detroit Inst. Art; AIC; MMA; Minneapolis Inst. Art; LOC; St. Louis Mus.; RISD; Toronto Mus.; LACMA; murals, Missouri State Capitol and the Detroit Public Lib.; the largest coll. of his work is in Belmont, the Gari Melchers Mem. Gal., in Fredericksburg, VA

Comentarios: (Born Julius Garibaldi Melchers) Important expatriate artist who lived in the American colony at Egmond, Holland, 1884, along with Geo. Hitchcock, W. MacEwen. During the early 1880s, he painted the peasants of Brittany and Holland; from the late 1880s-90s, his art was influenced by Symbolism; and in the 1900s he turned to Impressionism. He taught at Weimar, Germany, 1909-14 before returning to the U.S. and settling near Fredericksburg, VA.

Fuentes: WW31; Baigell, Dictionary; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 371; Falk, Exh. Record Series.