Childe Hassam

Frederick Childe Hassam ( born October 17, 1859 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, † August 27 1935 in East Hampton on Long Iceland, New York ) was an American Impressionist painter.

Life

Childe Hassam was in his youth a keen draftsman and watercolor painter. In 1877 he dropped out of school without any qualifications. As a young man he worked with woodcuts and established himself as a freelance illustrator for magazines such as Century Magazine, Harper's, and Scribner's. In 1878, he attended night school at the Boston Arts Club and at the Lowell Institute. She released her first landscape paintings in naturalistic style. Motives are Boston and the surrounding area ( Gloucester). The first exhibition of paintings took place in 1882 and Hassam sold the first pictures.

In the summer of 1883, Hassam first traveled to Europe and visited Italy, France, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK. Great impression practiced the watercolors by William Turner on Hassam. 1884 presented Childe Hassam 67 watercolors of his European tour in Boston from.

In 1884 he married Kathleen Maud Doane ( 1862-1946 ). In New York he saw in 1886, the exhibition of French Impressionists and traveled in the same year to Paris, where he remained for the next three years. In Paris, Hassam studied at the Académie Julian. In Boston, appeared during this period a number of books to which he contributed illustrations; Auctions of his works financed the Paris stay. In 1887 he exhibited for the first time at the Paris Salon in 1889 and took part in the World's Fair, where he was awarded a bronze medal. In the same year he returned to America and moved to New York to.

1897 Hassam resigned from the Society of American Artists and founded by John Henry Twachtman and Julian Alden Weir, the artist association Ten American Painters, called The Ten. Hassam was the leading exponent of American Impressionism. His city views from Washington Square and Fifth Avenue were just like the landscape views of Gloucester, the Shoals Islands and other motives the public successfully. There were other trips to Europe and within the United States. 1916 Hassam began a series of images with flag motifs with which he campaigned for the U.S. entry into the First World War.

During his lifetime purchased the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1909 one of his pictures.

1919 Hassam moved to East Hampton on Long Iceland / New York, where he died in 1935 and was buried in the Cedar Lawn Cemetery.