William Louis Sonntag
William Louis Sonntag | |
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Born | 2 March 1822 Pennsylvania |
Died | 22 January 1900 (aged 77) New York City |
William Louis Sonntag Sr. (1822–1900) was an American landscape painter.[1]
Life and work
Born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1822, he traveled to Cincinnati, Ohio, at the age of 21 and perfected his technique. Becoming an established and highly regarded landscape artist, he began making trips to Florence, Italy in 1853. Several of these trips were made with his friend Robert Seldon Duncanson.
In 1856, Sonntag permanently moved to New York to become a leading painter of Romantic landscapes of several scenes from his travels in Italy.[2] Sonntag was a member of the group known as the Hudson River School. Some of his paintings go beyond the movement to a grandiose expression of Manifest Destiny.[3]
There is strong evidence that several of Sonntag's pieces were scenes he had seen from photographs only. Grand Canyon, Yellowstone River, Wyoming, for example, is a landscape that Sonntag never traveled to. It is most likely based on a photograph taken by Frank Jay Haynes of the canyon in 1885.[2]
His son, William Louis Sonntag Jr. (1869–1898), was also a painter and an illustrator.[4] Theodore Dreiser wrote about his friendship with him in "W.L.S." and elsewhere.[5]
Gallery
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On the Potomac, Walters Art Museum
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Autumn Morning on the Potomac, LACMA
References
- ^ "Antiques Roadshow | PBS".
- ^ a b Andrews, Gail (January 2011). Birmingham Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collection. London: Giles. p. 127. ISBN 978-1904832775. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
- ^ Masterpieces East and West: from the Collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art. Birmingham, Alabama: Rizzoli International Publications. June 1992. p. 194. ISBN 978-0931394379.
- ^ "William Louis Sonntag Jr". Mary Ran Gallery. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
- ^ "Library of America Story of the Week"
External links
- American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Sonntag Sr. (see index).
- William Louis Sonntag at Library of Congress, with 1 library catalog records
- W. L. Sonntag Jr. at Library of Congress, with 1 library catalog records
- Artwork by William Louis Sonntag
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