Niagara Falls Upon arriving to the Allentown Art Museum I had a slight idea of what I was looking for. My initial plan was to simply find a piece of artwork that I was immediately drawn to, because it would mean that it was something I wanted to learn more about. Interestingly enough, prior to this museum, I had never been to art museum. Walking through I was mesmerized by various paintings, and also turned away by numerous others. This was to be expected; however, the one artwork that I found myself continually coming back to was Niagara Falls by Gustav Grunewald. It’s size, beauty, and simplicity not only made me immediately fall in love with this painting, but it also made me curious to learn more about it. Throughout this paper, I will discuss my personal
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Niagara Falls was an oil canvas painting done in 1834, by Gustav Johann Grunewald. Gustav Grunewald was originally born and died in Germany from 1805-1878 (Allentown Art Museum) (Sozanski). Gustav trained at the Dresden Academy with his teacher Casper David Friedrich, who was a well known 19th century German Romantic landscape painter (Sozanski) (Stokstad). Friedrich believed that the artist's inspiration comes from within, rather than an outside object (Whelan). This could be the reason why Grunewald stated he never had figure to look up to or was inspired by. After training in Germany, Grunewald ended up immigrating to the United States where he pursed his art career in Pennsylvania. Soon after arriving in Pennsylvania in 1831, he began exhibiting his artwork at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He also had a number of art shows at the National Academy of Design and the American Art Union in New York City. Grunewald lived and was active artist in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania from 1832-1878. Grunewald was a landscape painter who specialized in local subjects during the German romanticism
Niagara Falls was an oil canvas painting done in 1834, by Gustav Johann Grunewald. Gustav Grunewald was originally born and died in Germany from 1805-1878 (Allentown Art Museum) (Sozanski). Gustav trained at the Dresden Academy with his teacher Casper David Friedrich, who was a well known 19th century German Romantic landscape painter (Sozanski) (Stokstad). Friedrich believed that the artist's inspiration comes from within, rather than an outside object (Whelan). This could be the reason why Grunewald stated he never had figure to look up to or was inspired by. After training in Germany, Grunewald ended up immigrating to the United States where he pursed his art career in Pennsylvania. Soon after arriving in Pennsylvania in 1831, he began exhibiting his artwork at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He also had a number of art shows at the National Academy of Design and the American Art Union in New York City. Grunewald lived and was active artist in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania from 1832-1878. Grunewald was a landscape painter who specialized in local subjects during the German romanticism