Cornelius Krieghoff
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Cornelius David Krieghoff (June 19, 1815 – March 8, 1872) is probably the most popular Canadian painter of the 19th century. Krieghoff is most famous for his paintings of Canadian landscapes and Canadian life outdoors, particularly in the winter. He painted a number of variants of his most popular subject matter (e.g. Running the Toll).
Krieghoff was born in Amsterdam, but moved to New York in 1836, and enlisted in the United States Army in 1837. In 1840, he moved to Montreal with his wife Émilie Gauthier. He traveled to Paris in 1844, where he copied masterpieces at the Louvre under the direction of Michel Martin Drolling (1789-1851). The Krieghoffs returned to Montreal in 1846. He and his family moved to Quebec City in 1853. He lived in Europe from 1863 to 1870). In 1871, Krieghoff moved to Chicago, dying within the year at the age of 56. He is buried in Graceland Cemetery in Chicago.
His work includes:
- French Canadian Habitants Playing at Cards (1848 ), lithograph with watercolour on wove paper
- The Sleigh Race on the St-Lawrence at Quebec (1852), oil on canvas
- Montmorency Falls (1853), oil on canvas
- The Habitant Farm (1856)
- Self-portrait (1855), oil on canvas
- Bilking the Toll (1860), oil on canvas
[edit] References
- Barbeau, Charles Marius, Cornelius Krieghoff, Toronto, Ryerson Press, 1948.
- Barbeau, Charles Marius, Cornelius Krieghoff, Pioneer Painter of North America, Toronto, The Macmillian Company of Canada, ltd., 1934.
- Harper, J. Russell, Cornelius Krieghoff, The Habitant Farm, Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, 1977.
- Harper, J. Russell, Krieghoff, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1979.
- Jouvancourt, Hugues de, Cornelius Krieghoff, Toronto, Musson Book Co., 1973.
- Krieghoff, Cornelius, Cornélius Krieghoff, 1815-1872, Québec, Ministère des affaires culturelles, 1971.
- Krieghoff, Cornelius and Marius Barbeau, Cornelius Krieghoff, Toronto Society for Art Publications, 1962.
- Krieghoff, Cornelius and Monsieur Winkworth, Exposition d'estampes en l'honneur de C. Krieghoff, 1815-1872, Montréal, McCord Museum, 1972.
- Reid, Dennis R., Ramsay Cook and François-Marc Gagnon, Krieghoff, Iimages of Canada, Vancouver, Douglas & McIntyre, 1999.
- Vézina, Raymond, Cornelius Krieghoff, peintre de mœurs, 1815-1872, Québec, Éditions du Pélican, 1972.
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