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DEATH: 1925 L'HERMITTE
BIRTHS: 1768 KOCH — 1895 HAWKINS — 1874 MORA
^ Born on 27 July 1768: Joseph Anton Koch, Austrian painter and writer who died in Rome on 12 January 1839. — [Not a relative of Bazillus von Koch]
— Although he was born in the Tyrol, he later settled in Rome, where his son the painter August Koch [1818 – 13 Jan 1878] was born. August’s son Gaetano Koch became an architect who worked extensively in Rome.
      Joseph Anton Koch was one of the most important landscape painters of the early 19th century. With his friend Johann Christian Reinhart he pioneered the ‘heroic’ landscape style by heightening the grandeur and structural clarity of classical Italianate landscapes in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain and Gaspard Dughet. His work reflects a transitional period in European art. Largely under the influence of Asmus Carstens, Koch subscribed to many Neo-classical principles, but his work also has Romantic aspects. His interest in the natural sciences and Romantic philosophy betrayed an increasingly modern world-view, but he also embraced the medievalism of the Nazarenes. His landscape style influenced that of his friends Ferdinand Olivier and Friedrich Olivier, as well as that of Carl Philipp Fohr.
— Carl Philipp Fohr was an assistant of Koch.
— The students of Koch included Franz Theobald Horny [no comment], Friedrich Preller, Ludwig Richter.
LINKS
— Noah's Thanksgiving
(1805 / main detail, 886x1179pix, 109kb — ZOOM to picture with full landscape, 1890x2536pix, 442kb)
Subiaco
(1813, 869x1012pix, 85kb)
Heroic Landscape with Rainbow
(1805; slightly cropped at bottom 960x1051pix, 110kb — ZOOM to full picture 1628x1576pix, 282kb)
— The Monastery of Saint Francis in the Sabine Hills near Rome (1812 / main detail, 852x1140pix, 82kb) — ZOOM to picture with full landscape, 1873x2536pix, 344kb)
The Death of Oskar near Ossian (1804; 873x818pix, 53kb)
The Lauterbrunnen Valley (1821; 668x900pix, 148kb) — The Wetterhorn with the Reichenbachtal (1824; 750x659pix, 181 kb)
^ Died on 27 July 1925: Léon~Augustin L'hermitte (or Lhermitte), French Realist draftsman, printmaker, painter, and illustrator, born on 31 July 1844.
— He was the only son of a village schoolmaster and his precocious drawing skill won him an annual grant from the state. In 1863 he went to Paris and became a student at the Petite Ecole, where one of his teachers was Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran, famed for his method of training the visual memory. Jean-Charles Cazin, a fellow pupil, became a lifelong friend and Lhermitte later got to know Alphonse Legros, Henri Fantin-Latour, Jules Dalou and Rodin, who had all studied at the school. In 1864 his charcoal drawing the Banks of the Marne near Alfort (untraced) was exhibited at the Salon. By inclination and by training a meticulous draftsman, he continued to exhibit his drawings at the Salon until 1889.
LINKS
Le Lavoir près de la Ferme d'Erlan (Pas-de-Calais)
(1913, 47x55cm) [The following is not recommended: so-called high resolution image, 2065x2407pix, 1660kb, one of those double images with two sizes between which you can toggle by clicking on a disappearing icon in the lower right corner. The larger size is about 64x75cm on my monitor and its high resolution, it seems to me, does not show more detail in the picture but only the defects of excessive electronic enlargement: overall fuzziness and and a stretch pattern. The smaller image, 21x25cm is OK, but why spend a good part of an hour to download 1660KB when you get a better image, 27x31cm on screen, with just 175kb.]
Harvesters' Country (1882, 215x272cm) — Supper at Emmaus (1892 155x223cm) — A la Fontaine (1895) — Harvesters' Country (1882, 215x272cm) — La Famille (1908) — La Fenaison (1887) — La Leçon de Lecture (1912) — La Leçon de Claude Bernard (1889) — La Moisson près de la Marne (1910) — Le Marché de Chateau~Thierry (1879) — Maternité ou L'Heureuse Famille (1899)
^ Born on 27 July 1895: William L. Hawkins, self-taught US painter who died in 1989.
— Born in rural Kentucky, Hawkins came north to Columbus, Ohio, in 1916. His early years in Kentucky provided him with his knowledge and love of animals, an awareness that informs even his most fantastic dinosaur paintings. In Columbus, Hawkins held an assortment of unskilled jobs, drove a truck, and even ran a small brothel. He was married twice and claimed to have fathered some twenty children. Although Hawkins was drawing and selling his work as early as the 1930’s, he did not begin painting in the style for which he is best known until the mid-to late 1970s. He worked almost without letup thereafter, in spite of illness and advancing age.
     To accompany William Hawkins on his walks through the streets of his Columbus, Ohio, neighborhood was like following an experienced prospector in search of gold. Hawkins’s selective eye seized images from newspapers, magazines, and advertisements for a suitcase archive he kept in his bedroom. He combined these images with his own recollections and impressions to create a vivid picture gallery of animals, American icons such as the Statue of Liberty, and historic events. And although Hawkins could barely read and write, he transformed words themselves, usually represented by his signature and birth date and often his place of birth, into powerful visual elements.
     At first, Hawkins used inexpensive and readily available materials: semi-gloss and enamel paints in primary colors tossed out by a local hardware store, and a single blunt brush. Later, when he could afford it, he painted on Masonite, which he preferred because it didn’t “suck up the paint” like cardboard or plywood. Sometimes he dripped paint or let it flow across the surface as he tilted it so he could, as he put it, “watch the painting make itself.” He often painted elaborate borders around his pictures and attached such materials as wood, gravel, newspaper photos, or found objects. - Hawkins suffered a stroke in 1989, from which he only partly recovered, and he died several months later. He once summed up his aspirations as an artist by remarking, “You have to do something wonderful, so people know who you are."

Untitled (1970, 128x189cm) _ it could be a moose or perhaps a hippopotamus, so let's call it a hippopotamoose.
R.J. Building (1984, 99x122cm) — Acrobats (1988, 183x122cm) — Last Supper #7 (1987, 140x107cm) — Arch Park with Nationwide 2 (1986, 122x122cm) — Blue Vertical Buildings (1981, 142x143cm) — Franklin County Hall Justice (1983) — Columbus Buildings (1985) — Robotech A-Team Collage (1987) — Rearing Stud Horse (1987, 122x144cm)
Ohio State University Stadium (1984, 118x122cm) _ This image of the stadium at Ohio State University is based on an aerial photograph that William Hawkins found in a history of the city of Columbus. It is typical of his use of photographs and illustrations for inspiration. His buildings and other urban views focus primarily on the city's local structures, a sort of personal history book of Columbus. Hawkins painted his earliest large works on scavenged board, such as this piece of interior paneling, which he found on construction sites near his home.
^ Born on 27 July 1874: Francis Luis Mora, Uruguayan US painter who died in 1940.
— Francis Luis Mora was the son of the Spanish sculptor Domingo Mora and studied under his father before attending the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School and the Art Students League. Mora was an illustrator and muralist whose work reflected a blend of Spanish and Modern American influence. By the age of 18 Mora was illustrating leading periodicals. Two years later he began exhibiting his work, and in 1900 he was commissioned to paint a mural for the public library in Lynn, MA. Mora also painted a mural of the Michigan State Building for the St. Louis Exposition.
      His paintings usually depicted leisurely life, interiors and seascapes. Mora worked in oil, watercolor, charcoal and pastel. He painted the portrait of President Warren Harding which still hangs in the White House. He had a very successful career as an artist and teacher. He taught classes at the ASL, Grand Central School of Art and the New York School of Art.
— A portraitist, muralist, and illustrator, Francis Mora created work that reflected both his Spanish background and modern US life. He was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, where he was the son of Domingo Mora, a famed Spanish painter and sculptor. He spent most of his career in New York City and Gaylordsville, Connecticut. During his childhood, he lived in South America and came to the United States where his father taught art at Perth Amboy, New Jersey, Boston and in New York City. Mora attended the Boston Museum School of Fine Art, a student of Frank Benson and Edmund Tarbell. He also studied Old Masters abroad and took lessons at the Art Students League from H. Siddons Mowbray.
      By the time he was 18, he had commissions illustrating magazines, and two years later he began regular exhibitions. He spent most of his career, primarily as an illustrator, in New York City, and in Gaylordsville, Connecticut, but he also painted murals, including the public library in Lynn, Massachusetts and a mural for the Missouri State Building at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904. Portrait commission subjects included Andrew Carnegie and President Warren Harding. Usually his subjects were interiors, seascapes, and landscapes with figures engaged in leisurely activities. Occasionally he went West to paint Navajo and other Indians as did his brother Joseph Jacinto Mora. He taught at the Art Students League, the Grand Central School of Art and the New York School of Art. In 1904, he became an Associate member of the National Academy of design and two years later was elected a full member.
LINKS
Flowers of the Field (1913; 800x714pix, 174kb) _ 2 girls, ages about 9 and 11, with flowers.
Five Kids Arriving at School in the Snow (597x447pix, 21kb)
Food for France, a World War I lithograph poster (1916,76x51cm; 639x425pix, 61kb) _ detail (864k), image without the words _ detail (864x1152pix, 186kb), half-length of armless French soldier and ragged girl spoon-feeding him hot soup.
Don't Let Up, Keep On Saving Food, a World War I lithograph poster (1918, 52x34cm; 692x455pix, 59kb)
The Artist’s Studio (1915, 41x31cm; 500x371pix, 29kb)
Private Recital (sketch)
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Died on a 27 July:


1769 Jan Christian Vollerdt (or Vollaert), German artist born in 1708. — [C'est Vollerdt, PAS “Voler d'été”]

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Born on a 27 July:


1869 Charles Sydney Hopkinson, US artist who died in 1962.

1856 Arturo Faldi, Italian artist who died on 30 May 1911.

1826 Gerardina Jacoba Sande van Bakhuyzen, Dutch artist who died on 19 September 1895.

1809 Gottfried Johan Pulian, German artist who died on 04 March 1875.

1683 Jan-Peter van Bredael II (or Breda II), Flemish artist who died in 1735.

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