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Gustavus Johann Grunewald

Gustavus Johann Grunewald (1805 - 1878) was active/lived in Pennsylvania / Germany.  Gustavus Grunewald is known for Landscape, genre, dogs.

A landscape painter whose work seemed more European than American, he immigrated in 1831 to the United States from Moravia in Central Europe, settling first in Philadelphia and two years later in Bethlehem, where his family became part of the Moravian community.

He became an instructor at the nationally prominent Moravian Seminary for Young ladies and supplemented his income by teaching privately and drawing needlework designs. He sold pictures in New York City through the Apollo Association, which became the American Art Union, and through the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.

He had studied at the Dresden Art Academy from 1820 to 1823 with Caspar David Friederick, an innovator in the new school of German landscape painting. From him Grunewald learned the use of brilliant color and contrasting light for emotional effect. After army service, Grunewald studied in Berlin in 1830 with Gottfried Wilhelm Volcker, who taught at the Berlin Academy and admin   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1268 characters.]  Artist bio

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