Bavarian Brigand
Oil on wood panel, 20 x 15 inches
by Frank Duveneck.
I found this image on the Vose gallery web site and I pinched it.
Sorry Vose.
I love this painting, it's tells this man's story and the expression on his face is great.
Frank Duveneck has always been a painter I admired for his ability to get a good painting done and to do it with a lot of economy.
This is from Wikipedia. Frank Duveneck
Duveneck was born in Covington, Kentucky, the son of a German immigrant Bernard Decker. Decker died when Frank was only a year old and his widow remarried Joseph Duveneck. By the age of fifteen Frank had begun the study of art under the tutelage of a local painter, Johann Schmitt and had been apprenticed to a German firm of church decorators. While having grown up in Covington, Duveneck was a part of the German community in Cincinnati, Ohio. However, due to his Catholic beliefs and German heritage, he was an outsider as far as the artistic community of Cincinnati was concerned. In 1869 he went abroad to study with Wilhelm von Diez and Wilhelm Leibl at the Royal Academy of Münich, where he learned a dark, realistic and direct style of painting. He subsequently became one of the young American painters — others were William Merritt Chase, John Henry Twachtman, and Walter Shirlaw — who in the 1870s overturned the traditions of the Hudson River School and started a new art movement characterized by a greater freedom of paint application.
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Is it a self portrait Jeff? Terrific painting whatever, real red raw meat.
No that was by Frank Duveneck an American late 19th early 20th century New York painter.
I lived a lot but not as much as this guy...
Sorry Jeff not well phrased, I meant is it a self portrait by Frank Duveneck?
Hey Jeff, Frank Duveneck was always one of my favorite painters, too. I have never seen this one, though. Thanks for posting it!
No it's not a self portrait Julian, I think it's some person off the street.
Duveneck was found of painting people from the slums in the area he lived in NYC. Although this seems to be a German worker. He studied in Munich.
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