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John Quincy Adams (born December 21, 1874 [1] in Vienna, † March 15, 1933) was an Austrian painter.
Life
John Quincy Adams was the son of Boston in the US-origin, active in Vienna from 1867 to 1877 the Vienna Court Opera tenor hero Carl Adams (1834-1900) and received his first name based on an ancestor, the President of the United States John Quincy Adams. The early years 1878 to 1884 Adams lived with his parents in America. In 1891, he attended art school in Vienna by Robert Scheffer and then from 1893 studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna Siegmund L'Allemand and August Eisenmenger. Then he met in Munich with Carl von Marr and Johann Caspar Herterich and in Paris at the Academie Julian under Jules Laurens and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant. However, the formative influence of James McNeill Whistler in London on his painting.
From 1903, Adams was a member of the Künstlerhaus in Vienna, he participated in their exhibitions. He graduated in 1904, the Little Golden State Medal, 1905, the Archduke Karl-Ludwig Medal for the portrait of Mrs. Gretl Urban, and in 1906 the Great Golden State Medal in Vienna for the painting, we have to go through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God, and in 1907 in Salzburg. During the First World War he was a member of the group of martial arts district press.
Adams, whose studio was located in the Theresianumgasse held, often also in the USA, where he enjoyed great success. Just before a major exhibition, had invited him to give the Pittsburgh Carnegie Institute, the artist died in a sanatorium Auersperg in Vienna.
His honored grave is located in Vienna's Central Cemetery (Group 35D, row 1, number 28). [2]
Work
John Quincy Adams worked on the portrait, genre and landscape painting. He became famous for his portraits of celebrities of Viennese society, but many of which go beyond the purely portrait-like. A scandal broke out in 1909 to represent a gynecological operation, the frame of a group portrait exceeded. Besides numerous paintings in private hands are works of Adam are in the Belvedere in Vienna and the Vienna Museum. A catalog of his works appeared in 1938 in Boston.
Among his famous works:
Prayer for the dead in the house of mourning to Volendam, 1903
We have to go through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God triptych by Dutch subjects, 1905
Wife Gretl Urban Portrait, circa 1905
Portrait of the Artist's Wife (Austrian Gallery), circa 1905
Life journey
Helene Odilon (Vienna Museum)
Gautsch Paul Freiherr von Thurn francs (Favorita)
Louise Eisner, later Princess Odescalchi, (Vienna, Belvedere, Inv. No. 5554) 1926
Countess Michael Karolyi, (private collection) 1918, oil on canvas, 180 x 175 cm
Notes and references
↑ Top of birth year and date will be made in the literature, different information, the most common is the date:
21st December 1874:
Fuchs, Kleindel (with "?"), Liechtenstein Museum, John Quincy Adams (painter). In: Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker, among others: general lexicon of visual arts from antiquity to the present. Leipzig, 1907ff (marked in the entry: "After the Kstlers Personally Mitt by G. Clement..)," Vollmer
There are the following:
12th February 1873: Austrian Gallery Belvedere Regine Schmidt: Art in Austria from 1918 to 1938 from the Austrian Gallery. Exhibition catalog lock Halbthurn 1984
21st December 1873: Rudolf Schmidt: Austrian artists lexicon. Volume 1 Vienna 1980, pp. 461
23rd December 1873: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (According to her student directory)
21st December 1875: Austrian Biographical Dictionary 1815-1950
21st December 1875: Totenbeschaubuch after Czeike
↑ The funeral took place after the consecration of the Protestant Church in the Central Cemetery on 18 Held in March 1933. ((Todesfälle.). In: Neue Freie Presse, March 17, 1933, p 6 (online at ANNO))
Literature
John Quincy Adams (painter). In: Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker, among others: general lexicon of visual arts from antiquity to the present. Volume 1, Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig, 1907, pp. 74f
John Quincy Adams (painter). In: Hans Vollmer: General Dictionary of Artists of the XX. Century. Bd first EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p.10
Henry Fuchs: The Austrian painter of the 19th Century. Volume 1 A-F. Self-Verlag, Vienna 1972: K10 and 5-7.
John Quincy Adams. In: Austrian Biographical Dictionary 1815-1950 (ABL). Volume 1, published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1957, pp. 5 f (Direct Links on page 5, page 6).
Margaret Poch-Kalous: John Quincy Adams - a forgotten Viennese painter. In: Ancient and Modern Art. 20th Born in 1975, No. 138, pp. 33ff.
Regine Schmidt: Art in Austria 1918-1938 from the Austrian Gallery. Exhibition catalog lock Halbthurn 1984th
Viennese society in the portrait. The painter John Quincy Adams. Exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 9 July to 10 August 1986. Publishing House of Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna 1986th
Walter Kleindel: The Big Book of Austrians. 4,500 images in words and pictures. With the collaboration of Hans Veigl. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-218-00455-1, page 7
Felix Czeike: Historical Dictionary of Vienna. Volume 1 Publishing & Kremayr Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4, p.12
Alexandra Peyrer-Heimstätt: The Viennese painter John Quincy Adams. Diploma thesis, University of Vienna, Vienna 1995.
Web Links
Commons: John Quincy Adams (painter) - collection of images, videos and audio files
At Adams' wife Stefanie ("Steffy"), born Sobotka, Gutmann and Schloss Würting wiederverehelichte in Upper Austria
Obituary: John Quincy Adams † .. In: The Free Press, Evening Gazette, 16 March 1933, p.3 (online at ANNO)
Girl Portrait oil on canvas
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