Max Bohm
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 "My only available photograph but it will do as it looks like me" - Max Bohm | |
| Born | 1868 |
| Died | 1923 |
Max Bohm (1868–1923) was an American artist born in Cleveland but he spent much of his time in Europe.
Biography
Bohm was born in Cleveland, Ohio.[1] Bohm studied at the Académie Julian in Paris and travelled in Europe. Between 1895-1904 he made his home at the Etaples art colony. Described as a romantic visionary, his heroic depiction of Étaples fishermen, “En Mer”[2], received a gold medal at the Paris Salon in 1898. He he went on to teach painting at a school in London until 1911 before returning to the United States to join the school of artists in Cape Cod.
Bohm became a National Academician in 1920, dying three years later in Provincetown, a town at the tip of Cape Cod. His paintings are part of the Smithsonian Institution, the National Gallery of Art, the Luxembourg Gallery in Paris[1] and there is a mural in his home town at the Cuyahoga County Courthouse.
Bohm is grandfather of artist Anne Packard[3].
References
- ^ a b "About Max Bohm". Packard Gallery. Retrieved 20 October 2010.
- ^ See Wikimedia
- ^ http://www.gingerbreadsquaregallery.com/Paintings/Packard/Packard-Bio/packard-bio.html
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