Albert Herter

Albert Herter ( born March 2, 1871 in New York; † February 15, 1950 in Santa Barbara, California ) was an American painter. He completed his training at the Art Students League of New York, and at the Académie Julian and later created especially murals, still lifes and portraits. In recognition of his artistic career, he was, among others, in 1900 awarded a bronze medal at the Paris World Exhibition in 1943 and appointed as a member of the National Academy of Design.

Life

Albert Herter was born in 1871 in New York, the son of German -born designer Christian Herter. His father was with his half- brother Gustave Herter co-owner of New York-based firm Herter Brothers. Albert Herter received his musical training from his father and later at the Art Students League of New York and at the Académie Julian in Paris, where he met his future wife Adele McGinnis, who came from an American banker, family and there are also dedicated to art studies. After her marriage in 1893 both lived from 1894 to 1898 in Paris, before returning to the United States.

In addition to his own artistic creation Albert Herter also taught at the Art Institute of Chicago. Because of his heritage and his wife's home, the couple was able to lead a prosperous life, his father's work for rich families also gave him access to appropriate social circles. He spent the summer with his wife from the turn of the century usually on a designated as The Creeks estate in East Hampton on Long Iceland, while they lived the remainder of the year in Santa Barbara, California. The local property they could transform into a luxury hotel called El Mirasol after the death of the mother of Albert Herter in 1914, following its sale to a new owner, it was used from the 1920s primarily as a retirement home for wealthy individuals.

Albert Herter was the father of two sons and a daughter. He died in 1950 in Santa Barbara as a result of a heart attack, four years after the death of his wife on the creek. Her son, Christian Herter was 1953-1956 Governor of the U.S. state of Massachusetts, and from 1959 to 1961 Minister of Foreign Affairs of the United States. The family estate in East Hampton has been sold a year after the death of Albert Herter to the painter Alfonso Ossorio.

Work

Among the best known works by Albert Herter include various wall paintings such as the 1926 created " Le Départ of poilus, août 1914 ", which he left France as a gift. It shows the departure of soldiers at the Paris Ostbahnhof, where it is also, and his older son Everit dedicated, who had reported after the outbreak of World War I volunteered for army service in 1918 and was dropped. A 1942 series of five murals created under the title of "Milestones on the Road to Freedom in Massachusetts " in the Massachusetts State House in Boston is dedicated to his son Christian. In addition to the mural he created still lifes, especially floral motifs, and took contract work as a portrait painter. He also worked as an illustrator.

Other murals by Albert Herter, especially about events in American history are, among other things, to find the seat of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC, in the building of the Supreme Court of Connecticut in Hartford and in the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison. Several of his works are also exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, in the collection of the National Academy of Design and the Art Museums Harvard University.

Albert Herter received, among other things, in 1890 an honorable mention at the Salon de Paris in 1900 and a bronze medal at the Paris World Exhibition. In addition, he was an associate from 1906 and from 1943 a member of the National Academy of Design.