Carl Von Marr became a renowned expatriate painter and teacher, living much of his professional life in Germany where he created numerous works including figure, genre, and religious subjects. He... Read full biography
Carl Von Marr became a renowned expatriate painter and teacher, living much of his professional life in Germany where he created numerous works including figure, genre, and religious subjects. He also depicted peasants in landscapes in a somber palette. Later Marr investigated decorative and... Read full biography
Carl Von Marr became a renowned expatriate painter and teacher, living much of his professional life in Germany where he created numerous works including figure, genre, and religious subjects. He also depicted peasants in landscapes in a somber palette. Later Marr investigated decorative and symbolic subjects and adopted a much brighter and wider chromatic range. He was born in Milwaukee to parents John and Bertha Marr. They raised their son in a modest home on Knapp Street. John Marr was a... Read full biography
Carl Von Marr became a renowned expatriate painter and teacher, living much of his professional life in Germany where he created numerous works including figure, genre, and religious subjects. He also depicted peasants in landscapes in a somber palette. Later Marr investigated decorative and symbolic subjects and adopted a much brighter and wider chromatic range. He was born in Milwaukee to parents John and Bertha Marr. They raised their son in a modest home on Knapp Street. John Marr was a wood-engraver artist in an engraving firm, and his son, Carl Marr, joined him in the business at age fifteen. He also took lessons from Henry Vianden, prominent Milwaukee artist of that era. Marr went to Weimar, Germany 1875 to 1876 to study at the... Read full biography
Carl Von Marr became a renowned expatriate painter and teacher, living much of his professional life in Germany where he created numerous works including figure, genre, and religious subjects. He also depicted peasants in landscapes in a somber palette. Later Marr investigated decorative and symbolic subjects and adopted a much brighter and wider chromatic range. He was born in Milwaukee to parents John and Bertha Marr. They raised their son in a modest home on Knapp Street. John Marr was a wood-engraver artist in an engraving firm, and his son, Carl Marr, joined him in the business at age fifteen. He also took lessons from Henry Vianden, prominent Milwaukee artist of that era. Marr went to Weimar, Germany 1875 to 1876 to study at the Weimar Academy followed by study at the Academy at Berlin, and then from 1877 to 1885, with the exception of two years, was at the Royal Acad... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (34)
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Charles Reiffel: An American Post Impressionist
2012
Dijkstra, Bram; Ariel Plotek (Editor)
190 pages (color)
Return to the Heartland: Rediscovering George Van Millett
2011
Mackle, Lynn
140 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Famous Wisconsin Artists and Architects
2004
Levy, Hannah Heidi
316 pages
How to Draw Wisconsin's Sights and Symbols
2002
Peters, S. True
0 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
German-American Artists in Early Milwaukee: A Biographyical Dictionary
1997
Merrill, Peter C
165 pages
Revisiting the White City American Art at the 1893 World's Fair (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Carr, Carolyn K
408 pages (color)
American Selections 1850-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Lublin, Mary
163 pages (color)
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
American Portraiture in the Grand Manner 1720-1920 (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Quick, Michael; William H Gerdts
228 pages (color)
American Imagination and Symbolist Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Eldredge, Charles C
176 pages (color)
The Toledo Museum of Art American Paintings
1979
Strickler, Susan (Catalogue); William Hutton (Editor)
227 pages (color)
Munich and American Realism in the 19th Century (Exhibition catalog)
1978
West, Richard V
127 pages (color)
Recent Ideals of Americn Art
1977
Sheldon, George William
176 pages
Book of American Figure Painters (Art Experience, Late 19th Cen/ no. 11)
1977
Weinberg, H Barbara (intro)
240 pages
American Expatriate Painters of the Late Nineteenth Century (The Dayton Art Institute) (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Quick, Michael
158 pages (color)
Revealed Masters 19th Century American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Gerdts, William H
152 pages (color)
Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set) (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Naylor, Maria
1,075 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
Who's Who in American Art American Art Annual, 1933
1933
Editors
0 pages
A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One
1932
Hartmann, Sadekichi
363 pages
The History and Ideals of American Art
1931
Neuhaus, Eugen
444 pages
American Pictures & their Painters
1921
Bryant, Lorinda Munson
307 pages
Panama-Pacific Exposition: Catalogue of the Post-Exposition Exhibit
1915
Walter, John; Pedro Lemos
112 pages
The Art Gallery Illustrated World's Columbian Exposition