JEAN MANNHEIM German / American (California) 1861-1945
“STORM CLOUDS” Housed in a 22K giltwood hand-carved frame Museums (9): Denver Museum; Laguna Beach Museum of Art; Long Beach Museum of Art; Mobile Museum of Art; Museum of Art at Brigham Young University; National Portrait Gallery; Oakland Museum of California; Springville, UT, Museum of Art; The Irvine Museum
Books: (37) including Masters of Light: California Plein-Air Paintings from The Irvine Museum (Stern);Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery Collection; American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons (Fink)
Periodicals: (7) including American Art Review (3), Southwest Art (2), California Art Club Newsletter (2) Image Size: 12” x 15 ½ ”
Jean Mannheim, from the Alsace-Lorraine region in Germany, immigrated to America at the age of 21, and became one of Southern California's most versatile and respected painters. He was equally at home with the figure, and with plein air landscape painting – his palette continuing to lighten as he moved into impressionism. Mannheim was classically trained at the Delecluse Academy, the Colarossi Academy, the Academy Julian in Paris, and the London School of Art. He also taught for a short time at the Brangwyn school of Art in London, working with the great British muralist, Frank Brangwyn. Mannheim moved to Pasadena in 1908, where he became an integral part of the Southern California art community. He founded the Stickney Memorial School of Fine Arts in Pasadena, helped to found the California Art Club. The presented work is mesmerizing, with its strong diagonals, brushwork and coloration of approaching storm clouds, beginning to obscure the sun, and producing a rare halo of light.
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MANNHEIM, Jean (1863-1945)
Birth place: Kreuznach, Germany Death place: Pasadena, CA Addresses: Illinois; Pasadena, CA Profession: Painter, teacher
Studied: Ecole Delecluse; Colarossi; with DeLancey and Bouguereau; London Sch. Art.
Exhibited: Del Monte Art Gallery; Paris Salon; National Academy of Design; Blanchard Gallery, 1909; Seattle Exposition, 1909 (gold); San Diego Exposition, 1915, (gold, med.); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1915, 1917, 1922; Golden Gate Exposition, 1939
Member: Laguna Beach Art Association; Pasadena, Art Club; Long Beach Art Association; California Art Club
Work: Laguna Museum of Art; Long Beach Museum of Art; Springville, UT, Museum of Art; Denver Museum
Comments: He deserted from the German army as a young man, fleeing to France, where he began his studies in art. He supported himself in his trade as a bookbinder, and in 1881 came to the U.S. for the first time, visiting his sister in Chicago. He later taught in Decatur, IL, but went to teach in London, England shortly after the turn of the century for two years. Upon his return to the US, he taught in Denver, CO, moving to Pasadena, CA, in 1908. Besides his successful career in teaching art, he continued to paint portrait commissions, figures and landscapes en plein-air until his death. Position: founder, Stickney Memorial School of Fine Arts, Pasadena, CA. Teaching: Decatur, IL, art school; Frank Brangwyn's school in London; Denver Art School.
Sources: WW40; Hughes, Artists in California, 355; 300 Years of American Art, 574. This biography is drawn from the 'Who Was Who in American Art' , the reference book on the cultural life in the United States.
Selected Museum Collections:
Denver Museum Laguna Beach Museum of Art Long Beach Museum of Art Mobile Museum of Art Museum of Art at Brigham Young University National Portrait Gallery Oakland Museum of California Springville, UT, Museum of Art The Irvine Museum
Books include :
Stern, Jean; Jeffrey Morseburg, California Art Club: 90th Gold Medal Juried Exhibition Stern, Jean, Painted Light: California Impressionists from Gardena Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall, California Art: 450 Years of Painting & Other Media Gerdts, William/Will South, California Impressionism Stern, J/J B Dominik/H L Jones, Selections from the Irvine Museum Fink, Lois Marie, American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons Coran, James/W A Nelson-Rees, If Pictures Could Talk: Stories About California Paintings Stern, Jean, Masterworks of California: Impressionism (Fleischer Museum) Dominik, Janet Blake, Early Artists in Laguna Beach: The Impressionists Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery Collection, Illustrated Checklist Gibson, Dunn & Critcher, A Century of California Landscapes Gerdts, William H, Down Garden Paths: The Floral Environment in American Art Westphal, Ruth, Plein Air Painters of California: The Southland
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