Cats on Glass
Type:Painting
Size:30.00" x 25.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
William Emile Schumacher ART FOR SALE
1870 Belgium - 1931 Kingston, New York. Known for: Modernist town-landscape and still-life painting.
Born in Belgium in 1870, William E. Schumacher and his family immigrated to the United States when he was an infant. Raised and educated in Boston, Schumacher returned to Europe to study art,... Read full biography
Born in Belgium in 1870, William E. Schumacher and his family immigrated to the United States when he was an infant. Raised and educated in Boston, Schumacher returned to Europe to study art, entering the Dresden Academy in 1888. In 1890 he transferred to the well-known Académie Julian in Paris,... Read full biography
Born in Belgium in 1870, William E. Schumacher and his family immigrated to the United States when he was an infant. Raised and educated in Boston, Schumacher returned to Europe to study art, entering the Dresden Academy in 1888. In 1890 he transferred to the well-known Académie Julian in Paris, where he came into contact with the artists of the European avant-garde. He was particularly influenced by Art Nouveau and the art of the Nabis painters Pierre Bonnard and Maurice Denis. The approach to... Read full biography
Born in Belgium in 1870, William E. Schumacher and his family immigrated to the United States when he was an infant. Raised and educated in Boston, Schumacher returned to Europe to study art, entering the Dresden Academy in 1888. In 1890 he transferred to the well-known Académie Julian in Paris, where he came into contact with the artists of the European avant-garde. He was particularly influenced by Art Nouveau and the art of the Nabis painters Pierre Bonnard and Maurice Denis. The approach to color favored by Georges Seurat is noticeable in Schumacher's early works, such as The Kiss, a painting that dazzles with prismatic hues. Schumacher developed a style that incorporated sound draftsmanship, reliance upon pattern, and the use of vivid... Read full biography
Born in Belgium in 1870, William E. Schumacher and his family immigrated to the United States when he was an infant. Raised and educated in Boston, Schumacher returned to Europe to study art, entering the Dresden Academy in 1888. In 1890 he transferred to the well-known Académie Julian in Paris, where he came into contact with the artists of the European avant-garde. He was particularly influenced by Art Nouveau and the art of the Nabis painters Pierre Bonnard and Maurice Denis. The approach to color favored by Georges Seurat is noticeable in Schumacher's early works, such as The Kiss, a painting that dazzles with prismatic hues. Schumacher developed a style that incorporated sound draftsmanship, reliance upon pattern, and the use of vivid color, applying these techniques to landscapes, floral still lives, and genre paintings. Combining modern... Read full biography
William Emile Schumacher - Art for Sale (2 available)
Evening in the Hudson Valley
Type:Painting
Year:1913
Size:25.00" x 30.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
William Schumacher settled in the art colony Byrdcliffe in 1913.