Gari Melchers

Julius Garibaldi Melchers ( born August 11, 1860 in Detroit, † November 30, 1932 in Fredericksburg, Virginia ) was a German - American painter.

Life

The son of Soest ( Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia) German born sculptor Julius Theodore Melchers and emigrants and his wife Marie Bangetor received his training from 1878 to 1881 Hugo Crola, Heinrich Lauenstein, Johann Peter Theodor Janssen, C. Müller, Eduard von Gebhardt and Julius Roeting at the Dusseldorf Art Academy, then in Paris by Jules -Joseph Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger. New friends was Melchers with the painters John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) and George Hitchcock ( 1850-1913 ).

Since April 14, 1903 Gari Melchers with the artist Corinne Lawton Mackall ( born February 27, 1880 in Savannah / Georgia) was married, who survived him by 23 years. In 1942, she bequeathed to the City Belmont their common house, so today Gari Melcher Memorial Gallery (also known as Gari Melchers Home and Studio) could act as a kind of museum and tribute. Today it manages the University of Mary Washington in Fredricksburg. The museum opened its doors in 1975 for the first time.

In many of his paintings, which - especially in his later impressionist phase - characterized by bright and fresh colors, and broad and strong color treatment (→ colorism ), he depicts the life of the common people in Holland (→ naturalism ). Melchers won a medal of honor at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900. His later works include murals at the Library of Congress in Washington. Melchers lived alternately in Paris, Holland and New York. In 1909 he became a professor at the Art Academy of Weimar, where he worked until 1914. In 1915 he returned with his wife back to the United States. In New York, she opened a studio.

His residence in Falmouth, Gari Melchers Home the ( also referred to as Belmont ) was recorded in 1965 as a National Historic Landmark on the National Register of Historic Places and has been one of the 119 historic sites in Virginia.