Hudson River School

The Hudson River School is the name of a group of American landscape painters who were active mid-19th century and the German Romantic painting, especially the Düsseldorf School, and later were close to the school of Barbizon. Subject of her images is the valley of the Hudson River, the Catskill Mountains, the Niagara Falls on the Canadian- American border, the Adirondack Mountains and the White montains in New Hampshire. Your sceneries but not limited to the U.S., but also the Andes, Jamaica and representations of religious, ancient and literary scenes (for example, James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans ) have been subject of their landscapes.

As a founder of the Hudson River School to Thomas Cole ( 1801-1848 ). Cole moved to New York in 1825 ( back then the center of the American art scene ) and traveled in September and October of the same year in the Catskill montains, there to paint the first representations of the area. His co-worker and friend was the landscape painter Asher Brown Durand ( 1796-1886 ). The second generation is represented among others by Coles Frederic E. Church 's best students.

Focus

The Art of the Hudson River School reflected three areas America of the 19th century: the discovery, exploration and colonization. The paintings describe America with pastoral landscapes where man and nature live in harmony. The later works show in their Luminism proximity to the Impressionist painting in Europe. While the individual details are accurately reproduced, the images are, however, often composed of different elements to an ideal landscape. The artists gathered on adventurous and dangerous journeys sketches of unexplored and extreme landscapes that have been implemented in the studio in pictures.

Characteristic of the images of the Hudson River School is a realistic and detailed depiction of nature. Artistic models were European painters such as Claude Lorrain and John Constable. Your respect and reverence for nature they shared with contemporary American writers such as Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. There are extensive links with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

The images of the Hudson River School stimulated the spirit of optimism in eastern North America for the exploration of the continent towards the west coast and had influence on the national park movement in the United States.

Artist of the Hudson River School

  • David Johnson (1827-1908)
  • John Frederick Kensett (1816-1872)
  • Homer Dodge Martin (1836-1897)
  • Jervis McEntee (1818-1891)
  • Louis Remy Mignot (1831-1870)
  • Thomas Moran (1837-1926)
  • Arthur Parton (1842-1914)
  • William Trost Richards (1833-1905)
  • Paul Ritter (1829-1907)
  • Aaron Draper Shattuck (1832-1928)
  • Francis B. Silva (1835-1886)
  • William L. Sunday (1822-1900)
  • Jerome Thompson (1814-1886)
  • Robert Walter Weir (1803-1889)
  • Worthington Whittredge (1820-1910)
  • Alexander H. Wyant (1836-1892)
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