Still Life, Flowers, and Fruit
Still Life, Flowers, and Fruit
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Severin Roesen was a Prussian-American painter known for his abundant fruit and flower still life works, and is recognized as one of the major American painters in that genre from the nineteenth century.
While working as a porcelain painter in Cologne, Roesen exhibited a floral painting at the local art club in 1847. He and his wife Sophia arrived in Dover, England in 1847, and from there emigrated to New York, arriving in early 1848, where he exhibited eleven paintings at the American Art-Union over the next five years. Sophia died soon after their arrival in America, and on October 30, 1849 he married Wilhelmine Ludwig, with whom he went on to have three children; Minnie, Oscar, and a third child whose name and birth date are unknown. He supported his family through sales of his paintings to both private buyers and the American Art Union, as well as through teaching still-life painting. He later left his family and moved to Pennsylvania in 1857, living briefly in Philadelphia before moving to rural, German-American communities in Harrisburg, Huntingdon, and finally Williamsport, where he settled around 1863. During this period, he also exhibited works at the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Brooklyn Art Association.
The Williamsport Sun and Banner reported in 1895, "His studio was much frequented by his friends, who would sit all day with this genial, well read and generous companion, smoking his pipes and drinking his beer, and he was seldom without this beverage... In one corner of the finished painting would always appear the faint outline of a beer glass, and when a customer objected to its presence, he would say, 'Why, do you not like beer?' and then take it out."
A large number of Roesen's paintings were discovered in Williamsport. His pictures of nature's abundance found a ready market in the town's growing population of prosperous merchants and lumbermen, who purchased them to adorn their newly built homes as well as taverns, restaurants, and hotels. One hotelier and brewer, Jacob Flock, owned more than fifty paintings by Roesen, which the artist appears to have traded for lodging and beer.
Roesen's last dated painting is from 1872, at which point all records of his life and residence cease. Information about his life thereafter, as well as the date and place of his death, remains unknown.
• Paper thickness: 10.3 mil
• Paper weight: 5.57 oz/y² (189 g/m²)
• Giclée printing quality
• Opacity: 94%
• ISO brightness: 104%
While working as a porcelain painter in Cologne, Roesen exhibited a floral painting at the local art club in 1847. He and his wife Sophia arrived in Dover, England in 1847, and from there emigrated to New York, arriving in early 1848, where he exhibited eleven paintings at the American Art-Union over the next five years. Sophia died soon after their arrival in America, and on October 30, 1849 he married Wilhelmine Ludwig, with whom he went on to have three children; Minnie, Oscar, and a third child whose name and birth date are unknown. He supported his family through sales of his paintings to both private buyers and the American Art Union, as well as through teaching still-life painting. He later left his family and moved to Pennsylvania in 1857, living briefly in Philadelphia before moving to rural, German-American communities in Harrisburg, Huntingdon, and finally Williamsport, where he settled around 1863. During this period, he also exhibited works at the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Brooklyn Art Association.
The Williamsport Sun and Banner reported in 1895, "His studio was much frequented by his friends, who would sit all day with this genial, well read and generous companion, smoking his pipes and drinking his beer, and he was seldom without this beverage... In one corner of the finished painting would always appear the faint outline of a beer glass, and when a customer objected to its presence, he would say, 'Why, do you not like beer?' and then take it out."
A large number of Roesen's paintings were discovered in Williamsport. His pictures of nature's abundance found a ready market in the town's growing population of prosperous merchants and lumbermen, who purchased them to adorn their newly built homes as well as taverns, restaurants, and hotels. One hotelier and brewer, Jacob Flock, owned more than fifty paintings by Roesen, which the artist appears to have traded for lodging and beer.
Roesen's last dated painting is from 1872, at which point all records of his life and residence cease. Information about his life thereafter, as well as the date and place of his death, remains unknown.
• Paper thickness: 10.3 mil
• Paper weight: 5.57 oz/y² (189 g/m²)
• Giclée printing quality
• Opacity: 94%
• ISO brightness: 104%
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