Robert Henri
Robert Henri ( * June 24, 1865 in Cincinnati, Ohio as Robert Henri Cozad; † August 12, 1929 ) was an American painter.
Life and work
Henri was born as the son of Theresa Gatewood Cozad and John Jackson Cozad, who worked in the real estate business. The father founded in 1871, the city Cozzadale in Ohio. 1873 drew John Jackson Gozad with family to Nebraska, founded the city of Cozad and moved in 1883 to New York, then to Atlantic City. 1886 Henri studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In 1888 he went to Paris to study from 1889 to 1891 at the Académie Julian and the Académie des Beaux -Arts.
1891 Henri returned back to Philadelphia. As a member of a group of artists known as The Eight - this John French Sloan, William Glackens, George Benjamin Luks, Everett Shinn, Ernest Lawson, Arthur B. Davies, Maurice Prendergast and were - he rebelled against the academic art. Together they founded in 1908 in New York an art school, the Ashcan School, emerged from the artists as Stuart Davis, Arthur Garfield Dove and Joseph Stella.
1909 Henri taught at the New York School of Art, but established his own school, where he taught until 1912. His school attracted many of his students, so among other things, George Bellows, Rockwell Kent, and Edward Hopper, to whom he exercised great influence, also Norman Räben.
Together with The Eight introduced Henri in 1913 from the Armory Show in New York. From 1915 to 1928 he taught at the Art Students League of New York.