Paul Weber (artist)

Gottlieb Daniel Paul Weber ( born January 19, 1823 in Darmstadt, † October 12, 1916 in Munich) was a German landscape and portrait painter who lived and worked for a time in Philadelphia (USA).

Life and work

Weber was the son of the grand-ducal court musician Johann Daniel Weber (1784-1848) and Sophie Friederike Adolphine Mangold ( 1788-1848 ). He received his first training from August Lucas (1803-1863) in Darmstadt before he studied from 1842 to 1844 at the Städel School in Frankfurt am Main with Jacob Becker and from 1844 to 1848 at the Munich Academy. He completed his artistic training in Josephus Laurentius Dyckmans from Antwerp. In 1849 he went to Hamilton ( Cincinnati ) United States before settling in 1854 in Philadelphia. He quickly became a successful painter who in 1861 returned as a wealthy and " made ​​man " over Scotland and France in his home town of Darmstadt. 1864 Weber learned in a study visit to Paris to experience the French landscape painting of the Barbizon school, which by him, as the Biedermeier painting by Ludwig Richter, influenced. In 1872 he moved to Munich, where he painted urban genre scenes and the rural landscape around Munich. His landscapes he often busy with small animal or human staffage

Occasionally works by Weber can be found in auction trading

Exhibitions (selection)

Work

• Landscape with views of the Hudson River, 1855. Privately owned.

Works in public collections

• Museum Georg Schäfer, Schweinfurt
• Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA