Albert Henry Krehbiel

Infobox Artist
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name = Albert Henry Krehbiel

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birthdate = birth date|1873|11|25
location = Denmark, Iowa
deathdate = death date and age|1945|6|29|1873|10|25
deathplace = Evanston, Illinois
nationality = American
field = Painting; Drawing; Muralist; Painting and drawing instructor, Art Institute of Chicago and Armour Institute (later Illinois Institute of Technology); Instrumental in pioneering the Chicago Art Institute Summer School of Painting (later named Ox-Bow School) in Saugatuck, Michigan, and later founded the Albert Krehbiel School of Painting there.
training = Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Académie Julian, Paris, France
movement = Impressionism, Muralist, Neoclassical, Synchromism, Abstract
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awards = Awarded American Traveling Scholarship to study abroad by The Art Institute of Chicago in 1902; Awarded the permanent placement of a painting on the wall of Academie Julian, Paris, France, 1905. ; Had two of his neoclassical works selected by jury for exhibition at the Salon Des Artistes Francais (also known as the Paris Salon), Paris, 1905; Awarded the Prix de Rome for painting, Paris, 1906; Won four Gold Medals for painting (the most ever awarded to an American) and five cash prizes for drawing and composition, Academie Julian, Paris, 1904-1906; Unanimously awarded by jury the commission to design and paint the eleven wall and two ceiling murals for the Illinois Supreme and Apellate Court Rooms, Springfield, Illinois, 1906; William Ormond Thompson Prize, The Art Institute of Chicago, for The Snow Covered Road, Illinois landscape, 1919; Martin B. Cahn Prize, Painting by a Chicago Artist, The Art Institute of Chicago, for Wet Snow in the Woods, Illinois landscape, 1922; Clyde Carr Prize for Landscape, American Artists, The Art Institute of Chicago ; American Artists Exhibit of Landscapes Award, The Art Institute of Chicago; Municipal Art League Prize for Landscape, Chicago Artists, The Art Institute of Chicago.

Albert Henry Krehbiel (November 25, 1873 - June 29, 1945) was an American impressionist painter.

Life and career

Born in Denmark, Iowa, in 1873, Albert Henry Krehbiel was a graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago, where, in 1902, he was granted an American Traveling Scholarship to study abroad. In 1903, he began his three years of study at the Académie Julian in Paris under history painter and muralist Jean-Paul Laurens. Krehbiel won four gold medals at the Académie Julian (the only American ever to have done so) as well as the coveted Prix de Rome. In 1905, he received the esteemed honor of having two of his neoclassical works selected by jury for the annual exhibition at the Salon Des Artistes Francais in Paris (also known as the Paris Salon).

Returning to the United States, Krehbiel was commissioned to design and paint the mural for the wall of the Chicago Juvenile Court in 1906. In 1907, he was unanimously awarded the commission in a national competition to design and paint the eleven wall and two ceiling murals for the Supreme and Appellate Court Rooms of the Illinois Supreme Court Building in Springfield, the state's capital. Begun in 1907, the final Supreme Court Building mural was completed and installed in 1911. Mr. W. Carby Zimmerman, architect of the building, considered the work done by Krehbiel to be "an example of the best mural painting ever executed in the West."

In 1918 and 1919, Krehbiel spent his summers at art colonies in Santa Monica, California, and in Santa Fe, New Mexico. From 1920 through 1923, he spent summers exclusively in Santa Fe as an exhibiting member of the Santa Fe Art Colony. In the summers of 1922 and 1923, Krehbiel was invited by the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe to participate in its Visiting Artists Program and was given a studio in the prestigious Palace of the Governors next to his contemporary, Ashcan realist Robert Henri.

Krehbiel had associations and exhibitions with the other artists of the Santa Fe Art Colony -- and the Taos Society of Artists -- such as George Bellows and Gustave Baumann (exhibition in McPherson, Kansas, 1918), and Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt, Marsden Hartley, and Sheldon Parsons (exhibition in El Paso, Texas, 1920). Other notable artists that Krehbiel exhibited with during this period include Victor Higgins, Earnest Blumenschein, John French Sloan, Raymond Johnson, and Stuart Davis.

Krehbiel was a member of the faculty at The Art Institute of Chicago for 39 years and at the Armour Institute of Technology (later Illinois Institute of Technology after merging with the Lewis Institute) for 32 years. In 1926, he helped pioneer the Chicago Art Institute Summer School of Painting (later named Ox-Bow) in Saugatuck, Michigan, where he spent most of his remaining summers teaching and painting. In 1934, Krehbiel opened his own summer school of art in Saugatuck called the AK Studio. When able to break away from his students, he would capture the surrounding rolling hills and the Kalamazoo River in oil, watercolor, and pastel. He would often visit Saugatuck in winters to portray the area in its vast and billowing cover of snow.

Throughout the years, Krehbiel painted continuously. From his brightly colored Santa Fe and Santa Monica landscapes to his historic Chicago cityscapes and wooded presentations of rural Midwest, he painted incessantly and without regard for the elements.Albert Henry Krehbiel died from a heart attack on June 29, 1945 in Evanston, Illinois, while preparing for a traveling and painting trip through Illinois and Kansas. His death occurred a few days after his retirement from teaching at the Illinois Institute of Technology, although he had agreed to stay on at The Art Institute of Chicago for one more year.

* [http://www.krehbielart.com/honors_&_awards.htm Further detailed list of honors and awards granted to Albert Henry Krehbiel ]

* [http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/search/Search_Grid.aspx?searchtype=BOOKS&artist=73720 References: Books and publications about and containing information on Albert Henry Krehbiel ]

* [http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1046126U1394H.199&menu=search&aspect=Keyword&npp=10&ipp=20&profile=all&ri=&term=&index=.GW&aspect=Keyword&term=&index=.AW&term=&index=.SW&term=krehbiel+albert+henry&index=.TW&term=&index=.FW&term=&index=.NW&x=14&y=14#focusfocus Albert Krehbiel at the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art]

* [http://ryerson.artic.edu/search/?searchtype=X&searcharg=albert+krehbiel&searchscope=5&sortdropdown=-&SORT=D&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=ekrehbiel Albert Krehbiel at The Art Institute of Chicago Ryerson and Burnham Libraries ]

Exhibitions

During his prolific career, Krehbiel's works were shown in a multitude of exhibitions. Krehbiel's career resume of prominent exhibitions includes the following:
*The American Art Association in Paris, Paris, France, 1905
*Salon Des Artistes Francais, Paris, 1905
*The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1923, 1928, and 1931
*The Fiesta Exhibition of Paintings by Artists of New Mexico at the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe, 1923
*The First Exhibition of the National Society of Mural Painters at the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, 1925
*A total of thirty-two exhibitions at The Art Institute of Chicago from 1906 through 1939

* [http://www.krehbielart.com/exhibitions_list.htm Further detailed listing of exhibitions of the works of Albert Henry Krehbiel ]

Collections

Many of Krehbiel's works are held in private collections throughout the world as well as in the permanent collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, the De Paul University Art Museum in Chicago, the University of Michigan Museum of Art in Ann Arbor, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco M. H. De Young Museum, the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, The Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, Iowa, The John Vanderpoel Art Association, Chicago, Illinois and the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company in Fort Worth, Texas. Albert Henry Krehbiel currently has 168 works listed in the Smithsonian Institution Inventories of American Paintings and Sculpture in Washington, D.C., and selected archival material on Krehbiel's career is available at the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art in Washington, D.C., as well as at The Art Institute of Chicago's Ryerson & Burnham Libraries and at fine arts libraries throughout the country.

External links

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accessdate = May 13, 2008 "Slideshow of Krehbiel's work in the Illinois Supreme Court Building."
* [http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/search/citi/artist_id:2061 Albert Krehbiel works in the permanent collection of The Art Institute of Chicago]
* [http://mimsy.itd.depaul.edu/art/info.php?f=maker&type=browse&t=objects&s=Krehbiel,+Albert+H Albert Krehbiel works in the permanent collection of The De Paul University Art Museum]
* [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?sid=dfd1dfbdb4d90220089152cb7f1083e1;c=musart;q1=krehbiel;rgn1=ic_all;size=20;start=1;type=boolean;view=thumbfull Albert Krehbiel in the permanent collection of The University of Michigan Museum of Art]
* [http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=11W808711N92R.15674&profile=ariall&uri=link=3100006%7E%21254554%7E%213100001%7E%213100002&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ri=3&source=%7E%21siartinventories&term=Krehbiel%2C+Albert+H.%2C+1873-1945%2C+painter.&index=PAUTH#focus Albert Krehbiel at the Smithsonian Institution Inventories of American Art and Sculpture]
* [http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/ij/impressionism.Cassatt.html Albert Krehbiel at ArtLex Art Dictionary]
* [http://www.askart.com/askart/artist.aspx?artist=73720 Albert Krehbiel at AskArt]
* [http://www.kalofoundation.org/ Albert Krehbiel at The Kalo Foundation]
* [http://www.artincontext.org/artist/artist_main.aspx?id=2507 Albert Krehbiel at Art in Context]
* [http://www.krehbielart.com/default.htm Albert Henry Krehbiel (1873-1945); American Impressionist Painter and Muralist]
* [http://www.artworldchicago.com/krehalh.html Albert Krehbiel at Art World Chicago]
* [http://www.theartgallery.com.au/arteducation/greatartists/krehbiel/ Albert Krehbiel at The Worldwide Art Gallery]
* [http://www.artist-info.com/cgi-bin/search/user_search.cgi?action=show_catalog&ID=100590 Albert Krehbiel at artist-info]
* [http://arthistory.about.com/sitesearch.htm?terms=albert%20krehbiel&SUName=arthistory&TopNode=4516&type=1 Albert Krehbiel at About.com]
* [http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/krehbiel_albert_h.html Albert Krehbiel at Artcyclopedia]
* [http://www.wwar.com/masters/k/krehbiel-albert_.html Albert Krehbiel at World Wide Arts Resources: Art History; Masters]
* [http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/3aa/3aa278.htm Article on Albert Krehbiel at Resource Library Magazine; Distinguished Artist Series]
* [http://the-artists.org/ArtistView.cfm?id=F64A2DFA%2D1F46%2D4F67%2DB439E3DEC547B6D7 Albert Krehbiel at the-artists.org]