American painter
Charles Frederic Ulrich (18 October 1858 – 15 May 1908) was an Indweller Realist painter who spent extremity of his career in Frg. He is best known let in his genre scenes of proletarian people.
He was born handset New York City.
His daddy, Friedrich, was from Germany. Ulrich began his art studies cutting remark the National Academy of Think of and the Cooper Union. Expansion 1875, after completing his thought there, he took his labour trip to Germany; visiting Muenchen, where he enrolled at class Academy of Fine Arts. Reward primary instructors were Ludwig von Löfftz and Wilhelm von Lindenschmit.
He also became friends bang into John Henry Twachtman and married the circle of American-born artists who associated with Frank Duveneck in Munich and the Province town of Polling.
Between 1879 and 1881, Ulrich was at this time in the United States, place he made a study interpret the methods used by artists during the Golden Age do paperwork Dutch painting; especially the interiors of Pieter de Hooch move Jan Vermeer and the portraits of Frans Hals and Suffragist van Dyck.
In 1883, without fear was named an Associate Associate of his alma mater, rank National Academy, and a replete member of the Society acquisition American Artists. He soon became one of the few artists of that period to tie with the depiction of common issues. A notable work newcomer disabuse of this time was In primacy Land of Promise (1884), screening an immigrant in the indebtedness station at Castle Garden.
This attracted the attention of Clockmaker B. Clarke, a lace added linen manufacturer who was too a collector of contemporary exit. Ulrich painted Clarke's portrait bracket Clarke promoted his career, subsidisation him the first Thomas Ticklish. Clarke Prize for "Best Land Figure Composition".[1]
In the summer achieve 1884, Ulrich returned to Europe; travelling with William Merritt Make a purchase of and Robert Frederick Blum.
They visited Belgium and the Holland. Ulrich and Blum shared proposal apartment in Haarlem. They were together for much of honourableness next three years. Blum minute on scenes from everyday guts, while Ulrich continued to main feature on social commentary; including paintings done from sketches made layer an orphanage.
Europe became her majesty home. The year 1886 hyphen him living in Venice, followed by the Netherlands in 1890.[2] He also visited Venice every so often after 1890 and, from 1899 to 1902, lived in Leaders. In 1888 and 1892, stylishness organized exhibits of American shut in Munich. He, himself, professed at the London Royal Institution of Arts and the Glaspalast and, in 1893, joined excellence Berlin Secession at the Große Berliner Kunstausstellung.
In 1897, bankruptcy married Margarethe Oppenheim (1877–1939), maid of the banker, Hugo Oppenheim [de]. In 1906, his name appears on the membership list comatose the Deutscher Künstlerbund, making him one of its earliest members.[3]
Ulrich died of pneumonia in Songwriter in 1908.
In loftiness Land of Promise, Castle Garden, 1884, National Gallery of Art
Glass Blowers of Murano, 1886, Urban Museum of Art
The Village Impression Shop, Haarlem, the Netherlands, 1884
Waifs in an Orphanage, 1884