George Inness

George Inness ( born May 1, 1825 Newburgh, Orange County, New York; † August 3, 1894 in Bridge of Allan, Scotland ) was an American painter tonalistischer.

Life and work

Inness began his artistic career in the style of the painter of the Hudson River School. However, during his trips to Paris in the early 1850s he came under the influence of artists of the French Barbizon School. Barbizon landscape painting was known for her loose brushwork, dark palette and emphasis on mood. Inness was the American exponent of Barbizon - style, which he developed into a very own quickly. He was estimated as the best American landscape painter of his time.

Inness was the fifth of 13 children of a grocer. His family moved to Newark when he was about four years old. As a teenager he worked as Kartengraveur and sketched nature scenes on the edges. During this period, he drew the attention of fellow artist Régis Gignoux upon himself to which he soon after moved to New York City to study with him. As Inness in his early twenties, was a patron named Ogden Haggerty paid him a trip to Europe to paint and learn. He spent a year in Italy and a further year in France before he returned to the United States.

During the 1850s, Inness from the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad was commissioned to document with pictures the growth of this railroad in the early industrial United States.

Inness was strongly influenced by the theology of Emanuel Swedenborg. From the artist William Page introduced in the 1860s in the Swedenborgian ideas, he drew inspiration concerning the Divine in creation of these ideas, in particular the view that everything in nature has a corresponding relationship with something spiritual and so an " influx " from God gets to exist continuously.

Inness was also influenced by William James ( who was also influenced by Swedenborg ). In particular, he was inspired by James' idea of consciousness as a " stream of thoughts " as well as his ideas about how mystical experience shapes the individual perspective to nature.

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