Max Bohm (1868 – September 19, 1923) was an American artist who spent much of his time in Europe.
Biography
Bohm was born in
Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U.S. ...
.
He studied at the
Académie Julian
The Académie Julian () was a private art school for painting and sculpture founded in Paris, France, in 1867 by French painter and teacher Rodolphe Julian (1839–1907) that was active from 1868 through 1968. It remained famous for the number a ...
in Paris and travelled in Europe. Between 1895-1904 he made his home at the
Etaples art colony. Described as a romantic visionary, his heroic depiction of Étaples fishermen received a gold medal at the Paris Salon in 1898. He went on to teach painting at a school in London until 1911 before returning to the United States to join the school of artists in
Cape Cod.
Bohm became a
National Academician in 1920, dying three years later in
Provincetown, a town at the tip of Cape Cod. His paintings are among the collections of the
Smithsonian Institution, the
National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art, and its attached Sculpture Garden, is a national art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Open to the public and free of char ...
, and the
Luxembourg Gallery
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in Paris;
there is also a mural in his hometown at the
Cuyahoga County Courthouse.
Bohm is a grandfather of artist Anne Packard.
References
External links
''Paintings by Max Bohm'' an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF)
''Biographical Notes'' a catalog of American artists containing additional information on Bohm (page 9).
A finding aid to the Max Bohm papers, 1873-1970, bulk 1880-1959, in Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
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1868 births
1923 deaths
Artists from Cleveland
19th-century American painters
American male painters
20th-century American painters
19th-century American male artists
20th-century American male artists