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Edward Potthast
American artist
born 1857 - died 1927

Student of: Fernand-Anne Piestre Cormon (1845-1924)

American Impressionist Edward Henry Potthast is best known for sunny beach scenes, filled with sparkling surf and high-keyed details such as balloons, hats and umbrellas. Edward Potthast was born to a family of artisans in Cincinnati, Ohio, on June 10, 1857. At age twelve Edward Potthast became a charter student at Cincinnati’s new McMicken School of Design. Edward Potthast studied at McMicken, off and on, for over a decade. From 1879 to 1881, his teacher was Thomas Satterwhite Noble. Noble, a portrait and figure painter, employed a dark palette and a rich, painterly technique derived from his instruction under French artist Thomas Couture.

Potthast made his first trip to Europe in 1881. After a visit to Antwerp, where Edward Potthast studied with Polydore Beaufaux and Charles Verlat, Potthast proceeded to Munich perhaps on a visit that had been prearranged with Noble, who was also in Munich in the early 1880s. Munich and its Royal Academy strongly had long been a destination for Cincinnati artists. Potthast and Noble had been preceded by fellow Cincinnatians John Henry Twachtman, Robert Blum, Joseph De Camp, and Frank Duveneck, who alternately taught in Munich and Cincinnati. At the Royal Academy, Potthast studied with the American-born instructor Carl Marr (von Marr, after 1909), who was known for his adroit handling of light and shadow in realistically rendered works. Potthast completed his European tour with a visit to Paris, where Edward Potthast studied for about a month and a half at the Académie Julian.

Returning to Cincinnati in 1885, Potthast resumed his studies with Noble, while earning his living as a lithographer. At this time, his painting style was much influenced by the Munich School, which was, in turn, influenced by the Dutch painting tradition. Potthast’s paintings, which included both interiors and landscapes, displayed sound draftsmanship and dark tones applied with solid unbroken strokes. At the end of 1886, Edward Potthast again departed for Paris, where Edward Potthast studied with Fernand Cormon and, possibly, with Jules-Joseph Lefebvre. In 1889 Edward Potthast met American Robert Vonnoh and Irishman Roderic O’ Conor, landscape painters who were working at Grèz. The cool-toned, Impressionist paintings with scumbled surfaces these painters and others at the Grèz colony were making had a profound impact on Potthast’s palette. His conversion to Impressionism was immediate and irrevocable. When Edward Potthast returned to Cincinnati, Edward Potthast carried back light-filled canvases, paintings such as Sunshine, 1889 (Cincinnati Art Museum), a painting of a girl in an outdoor setting, which had been exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1889. When the exhibition entitled “Light Pictures” opened in 1894 at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Potthast was the only American artist included in the show.- Potthast Edward paintings copy and original oil painting - Potthast Edward oil painting –for sale original oil paintings Potthast Edward Bio by America original oil paintings for sale of America original oil painting Potthast Edward.

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