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1861 Zanesville, Ohio - 1943 Toledo, Ohio. Known for: Portrait, figure and landscape painting.
Before his death on November 16, 1943, Karl Kappes was fond of saying: "The Chinese have a saying that no man is an artist until he has painted 10,000 pictures. I am an artist.". Charles A. Kappes -... Read full biography
Before his death on November 16, 1943, Karl Kappes was fond of saying: "The Chinese have a saying that no man is an artist until he has painted 10,000 pictures. I am an artist.". Charles A. Kappes - he changed his name to Karl when he went to Munich to study in 1883 - was born in Zanesville, Ohio,... Read full biography
Before his death on November 16, 1943, Karl Kappes was fond of saying: "The Chinese have a saying that no man is an artist until he has painted 10,000 pictures. I am an artist.". Charles A. Kappes - he changed his name to Karl when he went to Munich to study in 1883 - was born in Zanesville, Ohio, May 28, 1861, the son of John Jacob and Elizabeth (Foerster) Kappes. Having had an interest in drawing since his early youth, Karl initially took lessons while in high school from Charles Craig, a... Read full biography
Before his death on November 16, 1943, Karl Kappes was fond of saying: "The Chinese have a saying that no man is an artist until he has painted 10,000 pictures. I am an artist.". Charles A. Kappes - he changed his name to Karl when he went to Munich to study in 1883 - was born in Zanesville, Ohio, May 28, 1861, the son of John Jacob and Elizabeth (Foerster) Kappes. Having had an interest in drawing since his early youth, Karl initially took lessons while in high school from Charles Craig, a local artist, whom he later recalled as a fine teacher and a likeable person. Soon after his graduation in 1879, Kappes enrolled at the McMicken School of Design in Cincinnati. After a short term there he left for New York City to study with William... Read full biography
Before his death on November 16, 1943, Karl Kappes was fond of saying: "The Chinese have a saying that no man is an artist until he has painted 10,000 pictures. I am an artist.". Charles A. Kappes - he changed his name to Karl when he went to Munich to study in 1883 - was born in Zanesville, Ohio, May 28, 1861, the son of John Jacob and Elizabeth (Foerster) Kappes. Having had an interest in drawing since his early youth, Karl initially took lessons while in high school from Charles Craig, a local artist, whom he later recalled as a fine teacher and a likeable person. Soon after his graduation in 1879, Kappes enrolled at the McMicken School of Design in Cincinnati. After a short term there he left for New York City to study with William Merritt Chase who, at that time, was one of America's foremost artists. At the age of 20 Kappes traveled to Paris where he studied briefly at... Read full biography
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Keywords (23)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
- •Oil Paint
Art Style
- •Realism/Semi Impressionism
- •Realist, Representational, Naturalist Style
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Portraits, Portraiture
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Germany Before 1900
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
- •Texas Before 1940
Art Association
- •Scarab Club, Detroit
Art Teacher
- •Benjamin Jean-Joseph Constant
- •Carl (Karl) Von Marr
- •William Merritt Chase
Art School
- •Academie Julian, Paris, Student
- •Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (Royal Academy, Student
- •McMicken School of Design, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Figure Specialty
Exhibition of Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts