Posts in Category: december 25
Abraham Bloemaert
Abraham Bloemaert, December 25, 1566–January 27, 1651, was a Dutch painter, draftsman, and print designer. Born in Gorinchem, he moved with his family to Utrecht in 1575 and trained there with Gerrit Splinter and Joos de Beer before studying in Paris and Fontainebleau, including with Hieronymus Francken.
Bloemaert settled permanently in Utrecht, where he became a leading history painter and a prolific designer of landscapes and devotional images. He served in the painters’ guild and, with Paulus Moreelse, helped establish a drawing academy; his long career moved from late Mannerism toward a more naturalistic Baroque style influenced by the Utrecht Caravaggists.
His pupils included Gerard van Honthorst, Hendrick ter Brugghen, and Cornelis van Poelenburch, as well as his artist sons Hendrick, Cornelis, Adriaen, and Frederik. Bloemaert remained active into old age, and the wide circulation of prints after his designs extended his influence well beyond Utrecht.
Hans von Bartels
Hans von Bartels, December 25, 1856–October 5, 1913, was a German painter and watercolorist born in Hamburg. He trained in Hamburg with Rudolf Hardorff and Carl Oesterley and also studied in Düsseldorf with Adolf Schweitzer before traveling in Italy and elsewhere in Europe.
Bartels settled in Munich in 1885 and was appointed professor of painting in 1891. He worked in oil and watercolor and became particularly associated with marine subjects, fishing communities, harbors, and coastal life; from the late 1880s he repeatedly worked on the Dutch coast, especially at Katwijk.
Bartels died in Munich in 1913. His work is represented in collections including Hamburger Kunsthalle and Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, as well as other German and European public collections.
Paul Manship
Paul Manship, December 25, 1885–January 28, 1966, was an American sculptor born in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He studied at the St. Paul School of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Art Students League in New York, and held the Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome from 1909 to 1912.
Manship established a career in New York as a sculptor of bronzes, architectural reliefs, fountains, monuments, and medals. His work drew on Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, and South Asian art; he served on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts and was associated with the National Academy of Design, the National Sculpture Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
His major public commissions included The Four Elements for 195 Broadway, Prometheus at Rockefeller Center, the Rainey Memorial Gates at the Bronx Zoo, and the Celestial Sphere at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Manship died in New York; substantial holdings of his work and papers are preserved by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Archives of American Art.
