Douglas Volk

Stephen Arnold Douglas Volk ( born February 23, 1856 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, † February 7, 1935 in Fryeburg, Maine) was an American painter.

People was the son of the sculptor Leonard nation and was named after the politician Stephen Arnold Douglas. His first artistic teaching people got by his father; His second teacher was the sculptor Thomas Crawford in Rome.

Around 1870 people came with his parents to Rome, as his father was an assistant in the workshop of the sculptor Crawford there. A short time later, he was supposed to be there at the Accademia di San Luca as a student. In the following year moved to the people, also based in Rome Académie de France.

At 17, people were taken in 1873 by the recommendation of his teachers by Jean -Léon Gérôme in Paris as a student. Just two years later, people on the occasion of the exhibition of the Parisian salons with his painting "En Bretagne " debut. 1876 ​​people were the World Exhibition in Philadelphia, Penn. invited. He could achieve in 1878 at the exhibition of the Parisian salons a similar success.

Beginning of 1878 people returned back to the U.S. and settled in New York. In the same year he was appointed as lecturers at the Cooper Institute (New York). 1886 was instrumental in the founding of People's School of fine arts in Minneapolis, Minn.. involved and where he was entrusted with a teaching assignment. 1893, the National Academy of Design in New York people on as a member.

The last years of his life retired people in Fryeburg, Maine. There he died at the age of almost 79 years on February 7, 1935.

Works

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• En Bretagne
• Dr. Felix Adler
• Sues of witchcraft
• Father Hennequin
• General Pershing
• King Albert