Henriette Amiard Oberteuffer
Henriette Amiard Oberteuffer | |
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| Born | June 20, 1877  Le Havre |
| Died | 1962 (aged 84–85) Lexington |
| Occupation | Artist |
| Spouse(s) | George Oberteuffer |
| Children | Karl Oberteuffer |
Henriette Amiard Oberteuffer (June 20, 1877 – 1962) was a French-born American painter, muralist, printmaker, and educator.
She was born Henriette Aurélie Eugénie Amiard on June 20, 1877 in Le Havre, France, the daughter of Charles Etienne Amiard and Victorine Alexandrine Daquet.[1] Her father was a coal merchant and amateur artist.[2]
She studied under Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens at the Académie Julian in Paris. She exhibited with the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Indépendants.[2][3] At the Académie, she met American artist George Oberteuffer. They married in 1905. Their son was the painter Karl Oberteuffer. The Oberteuffers moved to the United States in 1919.[2][4]
In 1922, they moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where George Oberteuffer worked as an art teacher and both Oberteuffers ran a summer art school in Cedarburg, Wisconsin. They both exhibited regionally and both won the prestigious Logan Prize from the Art Institute of Chicago, George in 1926 for a portrait of Henriette, and Henriette in 1927 for The Yellow Dress.[5] In the 1930s, they both taught art in Memphis, Tennessee, first at the Lee Academy, then the Memphis Academy of Arts.[6]
Henriette Oberteuffer won a competition to create a Works Progress Administration mural in the US Post Office and Courthouse in Vicksburg, Mississippi (now a privately owned building in the Uptown Vicksburg Historic District). The mural, Vicksburg—Its Character and Industries, was installed in 1939.[7]
Henriette Oberteuffer's work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago,[8] the Phillips Collection,[9] and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.[10]
Henriette Amiard Oberteuffer died in Massachusetts in 1962.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Ancestry.com, Paris, France, Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1555-1929, Henriette Aurélie Eugénie Amiard.
- ^ a b c Raynor, Vivien (21 Apr 1978). "Art: Scenes From A Marriage". New York Times. pp. C21.
- ^ Falk, Peter H. (1985). Who was who in American art : compiled from the original thirty-four volumes of American art annual--Who's who in art, biographies of American artists active from 1898-1947. Internet Archive. Madison, Conn. : Sound View Press. ISBN 978-0-932087-00-3.
- ^ Spicer, Thelma A.; Costello, Meg. Karl Oberteuffer and His Hopeful Dawn (PDF). Untold Tales of Falmouth from the archives of Museums on the Green.
- ^ a b Karel, David (1992). Dictionnaire des artistes de langue française en Amérique du Nord: peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs, graveurs, photographes, et orfèvres (in French). Presses Université Laval. ISBN 978-2-7637-7235-6.
- ^ Rust, Randal. "Memphis College of Art". Tennessee Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
- ^ Park, Marlene; Markowitz, Gerald E. (1984). Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal. Temple University Press. ISBN 978-0-87722-348-1.
- ^ "Henriette Amiard Oberteuffer". The Art Institute of Chicago. 1878. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
- ^ "Henriette A. Oberteuffer | The Phillips Collection". www.phillipscollection.org. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
- ^ "Lucille, Torso of a Young Woman, Henriette Amiard Oberteuffer ^ Minneapolis Institute of Art". collections.artsmia.org. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
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