Elmer Wachtel (Vachtel) ( Eng. Elmer Wachtel ; 1864 - 1929 ) - American impressionist artist who worked in Southern California.
| Wachtel Elmer | |
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| Date of Birth | January 21, 1864 |
| Place of Birth | Baltimore , Maryland , USA |
| Date of death | August 31, 1929 (65 years old) |
| Place of death | Guadalajara , Mexico |
| Citizenship |  USA |
| Study | |
| Style | impressionism |
Biography
Born January 21, 1864 in Baltimore, Maryland.
In 1882, he moved to California to live with his brother, who worked in the city of San Gabriel .
Initially, Elmer worked on a ranch , then in a store as a furniture seller, earning money to attend an art school. Interestingly, for some time he even worked as a violinist , performing in the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. [1] [2] Despite the fact that he studied for two months in the New York League of student artists and later at the London school Lambeth School of Art , Wachtel was largely self-taught.
In 1904, in Chicago, he married the artist Marion Cavanaf , they moved to California, where they lived and worked together in the Arroyo Seco area , near Los Angeles . Elmer worked in oil, and Marion in watercolor , so as not to compete with each other. [2] Traveled extensively in the southern United States and Mexico . Elmer Wachtel became known as a master of landscape painting. He died suddenly on August 31, 1929 during a working trip to Guadalajara, Mexico. The artist’s works can be seen in the Luguna Beach Museum of Art . [3]
- Some work
Trees in summer
Sierra runoff
Sierra panorama
Notes
- ↑ Gerdts, William H. All Things Bright & Beautiful: California Impressionist Paintings from the Irvine Museum . - The Museum, 1998-01-01. - P. 189. - ISBN 9780963546890 . (eng.)
- ↑ 1 2 Vachel Elmer unopened (unavailable link) . Date of treatment December 8, 2015. Archived December 10, 2015.
- ↑ Elmer Wachtel (1864-1929 )
Links
- Elmer Wachtel
- Elmer Wachtel - Works (English)
- About Wachtel-Waughtel-Breckle Family
- Portrait of Elmer Wachtel by Marion Wachtel
- lawrencebeebe.com/artistsbiographies/elmerwachtelbiography.html - Elmer Wachtel Biography