Sion Longley Wenban - Artist Info

About Sion Longley Wenban

  • Biography

    American landscape painter and etcher (1848 Cincinnati / Ohio USA to 1897 Munich),

    childhood in Cleveland, first studied at the New York Art Academy, briefly entered the Munich Academy

    in 1878, here pupil of Gabriel von Hackl, then further training with Frank Duveneck in Polling, acquainted with and supported by Frank Currier (1843-1909) in Munich, active in Schleißheim

    from 1880, mainly etchings from 1883, return to Munich in 1886,

    1891 founding member and board member of the "Munich Association for Original Etching",

    1892 founding member of the Munich-based company Secession

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