GENERAL DESCRIPTION
One of the younger American impressionists, Frederick Carl Frieseke spent most of his life in France and perpetuated the impressionist style into the 1930s. Suffering a steep decline in reputation after his death, his work experienced a revival of interest in the 1980s. Frieseke was born in Owosso, Michigan, and first studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago and then at the Art Students' League in New York. In 1898 he moved to Paris and took classes at the Académie Julian under Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens, as well as studying briefly under James McNeill Whistler. By 1900 he divided his time between Giverny and Paris. He exhibited in 1900 at the American Art Association of Paris, marking the beginning of regular participation in various shows in Europe and America including the 1904 Universal Exposition in St. Louis (where he won a gold medal). In 1906 he bought a house next to Claude Monet's in Giverny and was later elected to the Societé National des Beaux-Arts (in 1908) and the National Academy of Design (in 1912). Another move came in 1920 when he was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and bought a home in Mesnil-sur-Blangy, Normandy where he lived until his death.
Most notably influenced by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, and Pierre Bonnard, Frieseke adopted the surface elements of impressionism and applied them to interior and garden subjects. His work was sometimes criticized for its sentimentality, but was also praised for its authority and spirit. Women at their toilette or getting dressed were key themes in the impressionist iconography of domestic routine. Intimate and unpretentious, they offered glances at unguarded moments of feminine ritual in domestic settings. While some artists used such subjects to comment on vanity and the transience of beauty, Frieseke and his impressionist peers focused on color and informality. His interior scenes intermix various patterns, textures, and colors in a highly painterly presentation.
Adapted from
Steven Nash, Dallas Collects American Paintings: Colonial to Modern (Dallas, TX: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1982), 116.
NOTES
Source for fun fact- same as biography.
Added artist geographies to TMS:
- Raised in Jacksonville, FL, 1881-1885
- Trained in Chicago, 1893-1895, Art Institute of Chicago under Frederick Warren Freer and John Vanderpoel
- Trained in New York City, 1895-1898, commercial illustrator for the New York Times, Puck, and Truth; 1897 enrolled in the Art Students League
- Trained in Paris, 1898, enrolled at the Académie Julian under Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens; also enrolled at the Académie Carmen under James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Frederick William MacMonnies
- Worked in Katwijk, Holland, summer 1898
- Worked in Laren, Holland, summer 1898
- Worked in Giverny, summers 1905-1919, owned home previously owned by Theodore Robinson and nextdoor to Claude Monet; mentored artists including Louis Ritman, Karl Anderson, Lawton parker, and Karl Buehr
- Worked in Paris, 1898-1939
- Worked in Le Mesnil-sur-Blangy, Normandy, 1920-1939
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265932003: UMO. [Caption] Self-Portrait by Frederick Carl Frieseke in 1901. Watercolor, 13 x 10 in. private collection.
Source: Frederick Carl Frieseke: The Evolution of an American Impressionist by Nicholas Kilmer et al., p. 129, ISBN 0-691-08922-1, Wikimedia Commons, accessed July 15, 2016.
Attribution: Frederick Carl Frieseke [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Image cataloged to the best of my ability in Piction as of 3/21/2017 and was moved to the Online Collections folder for future display.
WEB RESOURCES
- Americans in Paris, 1860-1900~Read H. Barbara Weinberg's essay about this group of expatriate artists on the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History.
- Frederick Carl Frieseke~Read more about this artist on the Smithsonian American Art Museum website.
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Despite Frederick Carl Frieseke's use of generic titles for his paintings of women, the model was most often his wife.
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General Description
One of the younger American impressionists, Frederick Carl Frieseke spent most of his life in France and perpetuated the impressionist style into the 1930s. Suffering a steep decline in reputation after his death, his work experienced a revival of interest in the 1980s. Frieseke was born in Owosso, Michigan, and first studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago and then at the Art Students' League in New York. In 1898 he moved to Paris and took classes at the Académie Julian under Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens, as well as studying briefly under James McNeill Whistler. By 1900 he divided his time between Giverny and Paris. He exhibited in 1900 at the American Art Association of Paris, marking the beginning of regular participation in various shows in Europe and America including the 1904 Universal Exposition in St. Louis (where he won a gold medal). In 1906 he bought a house next to Claude Monet's in Giverny and was later elected to the Societé National des Beaux-Arts (in 1908) and the National Academy of Design (in 1912). Another move came in 1920 when he was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and bought a home in Mesnil-sur-Blangy, Normandy where he lived until his death.
Most notably influenced by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, and Pierre Bonnard, Frieseke adopted the surface elements of impressionism and applied them to interior and garden subjects. His work was sometimes criticized for its sentimentality, but was also praised for its authority and spirit. Women at their toilette or getting dressed were key themes in the impressionist iconography of domestic routine. Intimate and unpretentious, they offered glances at unguarded moments of feminine ritual in domestic settings. While some artists used such subjects to comment on vanity and the transience of beauty, Frieseke and his impressionist peers focused on color and informality. His interior scenes intermix various patterns, textures, and colors in a highly painterly presentation.
Adapted from
Steven Nash, Dallas Collects American Paintings: Colonial to Modern (Dallas, TX: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1982), 116.
Fun Facts
Despite Frederick Carl Frieseke's use of generic titles for his paintings of women, the model was most often his wife.
Archival Resources
Web Resources
- Americans in Paris, 1860-1900~Read H. Barbara Weinberg's essay about this group of expatriate artists on the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History.
- Frederick Carl Frieseke~Read more about this artist on the Smithsonian American Art Museum website.
Notes
Source for fun fact- same as biography.
Added artist geographies to TMS:
- Raised in Jacksonville, FL, 1881-1885
- Trained in Chicago, 1893-1895, Art Institute of Chicago under Frederick Warren Freer and John Vanderpoel
- Trained in New York City, 1895-1898, commercial illustrator for the New York Times, Puck, and Truth; 1897 enrolled in the Art Students League
- Trained in Paris, 1898, enrolled at the Académie Julian under Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens; also enrolled at the Académie Carmen under James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Frederick William MacMonnies
- Worked in Katwijk, Holland, summer 1898
- Worked in Laren, Holland, summer 1898
- Worked in Giverny, summers 1905-1919, owned home previously owned by Theodore Robinson and nextdoor to Claude Monet; mentored artists including Louis Ritman, Karl Anderson, Lawton parker, and Karl Buehr
- Worked in Paris, 1898-1939
- Worked in Le Mesnil-sur-Blangy, Normandy, 1920-1939
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