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Anna Elizabeth Kumpke

Let the clumpke (San Francisco, 28 October 1856 – San Francisco, 9 February 1942) was an American painter.

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Anna Elizabeth Kumpke He was born in San Francisco in California to John Gerald Klumpke, born in England, [first] (or in Germany) [2] , wealthy real estate agent of San Francisco, and by Dorothea Mattilda Tolle. Anna was the eight children, but only five of them lived to mature age. He had four sisters: Dorothea Klumpke Roberts, who was astronoma; Augusta dejerine-klumpke, neurologist; Julia Klumpke, violinist and composer and Mathilda Klumpke, pianist. Anna’s youth was very troubled.

At three years old Anna fractured a femur and throughout his life he suffered from osteomyelitis and arthritis and this made it almost invalid. Her mother made the impossible to find a cure, bringing her, together with the brothers, to Berlin to make her cure by Dr. Bernhard von Langenbeck. The treatment lasted 18 months, but was not successful, and Anna remained claudicant forever. While they were in Europe, the mother made sure that she still received a substantial education.
But the absence of the family from America caused tensions with the father left in San Francisco and, in 1871, the parents divorced. With his mother and the five Anna brothers he was first brought to Gottinga, where the family lived for two years at a maternal aunt who had married a German, and where Anna and her sister Augusta were sent to school in Cannstatt, near Stuttgart. So when Anna was 17, they all moved to Clarens, Switzerland, at Lake Geneva, where the young man spent two years in the College.

Anna studied art at home for a few years, then, in October 1877, he moved with his family to Paris. At the beginning he was a private student of the painter Pierre Augusta Cot, then he enrolled at the Académie Julian from 1883 to 1884 to complete his training. He became a student of Tony Robert-Fleury and Jules Joseph Lefebvre and for a few months he copied the paintings of the Luxembourg Museum, including those of Rosa Bonheur. [3] [4] He later also studied with Félix Dominique de Vuillefroy and presented himself for the first time at the “Salon des Artistes Français” in 1884, winning the prize dedicated to foreign students of the year. He then continued to exhibit at the Salon for several years, regularly and with considerable success. Once his studies were completed, Anna returned to the United States, in Boston, but in 1889 he resumed the way to Paris.

From in gigli , 1909
M.H. de Young Memorial Museum di San Francisco

In October of that year Anna had the opportunity to act as an interpreter between Buffalo Bill, who was on tour in Europe, and the painter Rosa Bonheur, an artist already very famous for his paintings as animals and famous in all the United States. Anna was fascinated by that artist and, perhaps, he favorably accepted his calm homosexuality. [5] Anna Klumpke and Rosa Bonheur therefore met on October 15, 1889 in Thomery, near Fontainebleau, and began to frequent each other, and then live practically together for ten years, despite the age difference (34 years), until the death of Rosa. Anna soon asked Bonheur for permission to make her portrait and the latter granted it with enthusiasm. So it was that Anna Klumpke went to live with her in the Castle of by Thomery. Rosa Bonheur was then 76 years old, had no children and had for some time lost his beloved life partner, Nathalie Micas. The arrival of the young American gave her the joy of life and she did everything that Anna Klumpke’s stay lasted as long as possible. He expressly built an atelier in the castle park so that Klumpke could paint quietly. In turn Anna promised to remain in the Castle of By until the death of Rosa. During his stay in the Castle Anna Klumpke wrote, under dictation of the Bonheur, the biography of the latter, which completed, with his observations, on his personal diary.

Rosa Bonheur died in May 1899, leaving Anna Klumpke his universal heir. Anna did everything possible to keep the Atelier and the works of Bonheur so that they were known and appreciated by future generations. In addition, in memory of the friend, he established the “Bonheur Rosa Prize”, with a sum of money that she took from the left legacy. In 1908 he published the biography of Rosa with the publisher Flamarion, in French: ” Rosa Happiness, his life his work “,
Based on what was reported in his diary, in the letters of Rosa Bonheur, in various notes and writings. In the book, which was translated and published in English only in 1998, Anna Klumpke tells the story of the life of the famous artist.
After the death of Rosa, Anna divided her time between France, Boston and San Francisco, finally establishing himself in the latter city in 1930 and continuing his activity as a painter. In 1940 he published his autobiography: Memoirs of an Artist .

He died shortly after, in 1940, at 86 years old, in the native San Francisco, but was buried in Paris in the cemetery of Père-Lachaise, alongside Rosa Bonheur, in the tomb of the Micas family, which Rosa considered his true family. [6]

The Castle of By and the Museum of the Rosa-Bonheur Atelier in Thomery still retain an important heritage of works by Anna Klumpke, as well as numerous of its personal effects.

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Anna Klumpke was essentially a genre painter and in her compositions it often used female figures. His work Catinou Knitting It was exposed to the Salon of Paris in 1877. This image, with very sentimental traits, became very popular and several copies were made. He also made numerous portraits and is known in particular for those of Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1889) [7] E Di Rosa Bonheur (1898). [8]
His painting always appears pervaded by an intense, melancholy poetry.

Partial list.

  • Portrait of Elizabeth Cady Stanton , 1886, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
  • In the Washhouse , 1888, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Filadelfia
  • Portrait of Mary Sophia Walker , 1898, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
  • Portrait of Rosa Happiness , 1898, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
  • Rosa Happiness (Studio per ritratto), 1898, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick
  • Portrait of Rosa Happiness With Charley 1899 mary carpinular
  • Portrait of Rosa Happiness in Studio , 1902, Museum of the Atelier di Rosa Bonheur, Thomery
  • Among the Lilies , 1909, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco
  • The Artist’s Father , 1912, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco
  • Rosa Happiness: his life his work , Editore Ernest Flammarion, 1908 [9]
  • Rosa Happiness: The Artist’s Auto-Biography , edition in English, translated. by Gretchen Van Slyke – Ediz. University of Michigan Press, 1998, ISBN 0-472-08842-4
  • Anna Klumpke, A Turn-of-the-Century Painter and Her World , Editore Brita C. DWNER, NortHeason, 1999, ISBN 1-555553-386-8

Autobiography [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

  • Memoirs of an Artist , ediz. Wright and Potter Printing Company, Boston, 1940
  • Silver medal of the “Reconnaissance Française”.
  • Two silver medals at the Académie Julian, Paris.
  • Meat of Blood Al ‘Sat Artsis Français “Del 1885, Paris.
  • Bronze medal at the Expo of 1889, Parigu.
  • Silver medal of the friends of Versailles, 1889.
  • Temple Gold Medal 1889, Filadelfia. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. [ten]
  • Bronze medal at the Expo of 1905, Saint-Louis.
  • Knearing of a légion d’Honneur by Decreter of Dec 27 July 1924 [11] [twelfth]
  • Ufficial della Legion of Honor, 1936.
  • Ritratto di Rosa Bonheur, 1898 New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

    Portrait of Rosa Bonheur , 1898
    New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

  • Momento di riposo, 1891
  • Donna seduta con un foulard rosso, 1886

    Woman sitting with a red scarf , 1886

  • Il lavatoio, 1888 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

    The washbasin , 1888
    Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

  • Ritratto del padre, 1912
  1. ^ J Bogousslavsky, The Klumpke family–memories by Doctor Déjerine, born Augusta Klumpke , in European Neurology , vol. 53, n. 3, 2005, pp. 113–20, doi: 10.1159/000085554 , PMID  15860915 .
  2. ^ David Rogers, “John Klumpke’s “Homestead” on Pine Ridge” , The Double Cone Quarterly , Spring Equinox 2000, Volume III, Number 1
  3. ^ Clara Erskine Clement, Women in the fine arts: from the seventh century B.C. to the twentieth century A.D. , Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1904. URL consulted on January 26, 2015 .
  4. ^ Letter E Arte: Anna Klumpke , in Public Opinion , vol. 29, 1900, p. 340. URL consulted on January 26, 2015 .
  5. ^ Lawrence J. Cantor & Company, “Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, (1856-1942)” Filed On January 3, 2006 on the Internet Archive.
  6. ^ Paul Bauer, Two centuries of history to Father Lachaise , Editore Memory and Documents, 2006. ISBN 978-2-914611-48-0
  7. ^ “American Art: Lesbian, Nineteenth Century” Filed On November 23, 2005 on the Internet Archive. GLBTQ, INC.
  8. ^ ( IN ) The Portrait That Forged a “Divine Marriage” Between Two 19th-Century Women Painters , in Hyperallergic , 2018. URL consulted on 19-04-2018 .
  9. ^ Book Auction: Anna Klumpke – Rosa Bonheur. His life his work . are auction.catawiki.com .
  10. ^ She was the first woman who received this prize.
  11. ^ Léonore base .
  12. ^ Jules either, North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary , Routledge, 2013, p. 308, ISBN 1-135-63882-9. Hosted on Google Books.
  • ( IN ) Britta C. Dwyer, Anna Klumpke: a Turn-of-the-century Painter and Her World , Northeastern University Press, 1999.
  • Marie Borin, Rosa Bonheur, an artist at the dawn of feminism , ediz. Pyhmalion, 2011.
  • Kathleen Adler, Americans in Paris, 1860–1900 . National Gallery, Londra 2006, ISBN 1-85709-301-1.

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