Cornelius Krieghoff

Cornelius Krieghoff
Cornelius Krieghoff

Cornelius Krieghoff photographed by M.O. Hammond.
Born June 19, 1815
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Died April 8, 1872(1872-04-08) (aged 56)
Chicago, Illinois
Field Painting
Training Michel Martin Drolling
Works The Toll Gate, 1859

Cornelius David Krieghoff (June 19, 1815 – March 8, 1872) is probably the most popular Canadian painter of the 19th century.[1] Krieghoff is most famous for his paintings of Canadian landscapes and Canadian life outdoors, which were sought-after in his own time as they are today.[2] He is particularly famous for his winter scenes, some of which he painted in a number of variants (e.g. Running the Toll).

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Life and career

Krieghoff was born in Amsterdam. He was initially taught by his father and then entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Germany about 1830. He moved to New York in 1836, and enlisted in the United States Army in 1837. While in the army, he made sketches of the Second Seminole War from which he later produced oil paintings. He deserted the army on May 5, 1840. Later that year, together with his wife Émilie Gauthier, he moved to Montreal, where he participated in the Salon de la Société des Artistes de Montréal. While in Montreal, he befriended the Mohawks living on the Kahnawake Indian Reservation and made many sketches of them from which he later produced oil paintings.

Krieghoff traveled to Paris in 1844, where he copied masterpieces at the Louvre under the direction of Michel Martin Drolling (1789–1851). The Krieghoffs returned to Montreal in 1846, and in 1847 he was invited to participate in the first exhibition of the Toronto Society of Arts. He and his family moved to Quebec City in 1853. He returned to Europe in 1854, visiting Italy and Germany. In 1855, he returned to Canada. He lived in Europe from 1863 to 1868 and then moved to Chicago to retire. He died in Chicago on March 8, 1872 at the age of 56 and is buried in Graceland Cemetery in Chicago. A decade later, on June 8, 1881, the Great Quebec Fire destroyed many of his sketches, then owned by John S. Budden, who had lived with the artist for thirteen years.

The Art Gallery of Hamilton (Hamilton, Canada), the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, Canada), the Beaverbrook Art Gallery (Fredericton, Canada), the Brooklyn Museum (New York City), the Glenbow Museum (Calgary, Canada), the McCord Museum (Montreal, Canada), the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montreal, Canada), Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Quebec, Canada), the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, Canada), the New York Public Library (New York City), and the Rockwell Museum of Western Art (Corning, New York), the Winnipeg Art Gallery (Winnipeg, Canada) are among the public collections holding work by Cornelius Krieghoff.

Auction record

The auction record for a painting by Cornelius Krieghoff is $158,350 (171,000 Canadian dollars). This record was set by Caughnawaga Indians at Camp, a 17.5 by 26.5 inch oil painting on canvas sold May 29, 2007 at Joyner Waddington (Toronto).[3]

Gallery

References

  • Barbeau, Charles Marius, Cornelius Krieghoff, Toronto, Ryerson Press, 1948.
  • Barbeau, Charles Marius, Cornelius Krieghoff, Pioneer Painter of North America, Toronto, The Macmillian Company of Canada, ltd., 1934.
  • Harper, J. Russell, Cornelius Krieghoff, The Habitant Farm, Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, 1977.
  • Harper, J. Russell, Krieghoff, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1979.
  • Jouvancourt, Hugues de, Cornelius Krieghoff, Toronto, Musson Book Co., 1973.
  • Krieghoff, Cornelius, Cornélius Krieghoff, 1815-1872, Québec, Ministère des affaires culturelles, 1971.
  • Krieghoff, Cornelius and Marius Barbeau, Cornelius Krieghoff, Toronto Society for Art Publications, 1962.
  • Krieghoff, Cornelius and Monsieur Winkworth, Exposition d'estampes en l'honneur de C. Krieghoff, 1815-1872, Montréal, McCord Museum, 1972.
  • Reid, Dennis R., Ramsay Cook and François-Marc Gagnon, Krieghoff, Images of Canada, Vancouver, Douglas & McIntyre, 1999.
  • Vézina, Raymond, Cornelius Krieghoff, peintre de mœurs, 1815-1872, Québec, Éditions du Pélican, 1972.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Gehmacher, Arlene, “Krieghoff, Cornelius David” in The Canadian Encyclopedia
  2. ^ Gehmacher, Arlene, “Krieghoff, Cornelius David” in The Canadian Encyclopedia
  3. ^ AskArt.com accessed Jan. 4, 2011

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