biografía de Gustavus Adolphus BEHNE (1828-1895)

Lugar de nacimiento: Nordhausen, Prussia

Lugar de defunción: near Munich

Direcciones: Reading, PA, 1855; Philadelphia, 1857

Profesión: Religious and landscape painter

Estudios: arts, music and languages at Düsseldorf Sch. and Munich galleries; T. Sully in Phila.

Exposiciones: PAFA, 1857

Asociaciones: Artists Club

Obra: full-length portraits of Gen. Samuel Huston and President Burnett, comm. by U.S. Govt.

Comentarios: The son of a successful homeopathic physician, he won some acclaim in Germany before coming to the U.S. where he became a prof. of languages, Univ. of Columbus. While in Philadelphia, 1857, he exhibited a Berks County hay-making scene. Behne and his wife, the former Julia May Keim, moved to Cuba until unrest in the region forced them to return to Germany in 1867. In 1874 they returned to Reading, Pa., where Behne continued to paint local scenes. They returned to Munich in 1876, allowing Behne to continue painting in the German countryside until his death; he was buried outside Munich.

Fuentes: G&W; Rutledge, Pa.; Malmberg, Artists of Berks County, 6.