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Title:An American Painter Abroad: Frank Duveneck's European Years Price: $149 plus $15 shipping, handling and insurance |
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Frank Duveneck (born Frank Decker) was raised in a working-class German-Catholic immigrant family in Cincinnati. In his teens, Duveneck was apprenticed to two German-American artisans who decorated Catholic churches throughout the Midwest. Showing promise, Duveneck was encouraged by his community in Cincinnati to study, not in Paris or New York, but in Munich. Between 1870 and 1873, Duveneck distinguished himself at the Royal Academy in Munich, winning prizes and mastering the bravura brush technique practiced by the Munich school. The psychologically-penetrating portraits produced during those years, such as Portrait of a Boy (1872), Whistling Boy,and The Cobbler’s Apprentice (1877) are characterized by expressive brush strokes, and a dark and brooding background dominated by browns and blacks. Even though his paintings appear effortless and spontaneous, the figures have a sculpted density and impart a vivid and pulsing presence.
