Daniel Gerhartz (1965)
In deze korte reeks vier schilders van mijn generatie die het modernisme de rug hebben toegekeerd en zich baseren op de traditie van de Oude Meesters of de negentiende eeuwse Académie: Morgan Weistling (1964), Daniel Gerhartz (1965), Kamille Corry (1966) en Paul S. Brown (1967).
Vandaag: al la prima schilder Daniel Gerhartz (1965)
Daniel Gerhartz, born in 1965 in Kewaskum, Wisconsin, where he now lives with his wife Jennifer, and their young children, Dan’s interest in art emerged as a teenager. Studies at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, Illinois and his voracious appetite for museums and the modern masters such as John Singer Sargent, Alphonse Mucha, Nicolai Fechin, Joaquin Sorolla, Carl von Marr as well as a host of other French and American impressionists have inspired him.Dan has a particular interest and appreciation for modern Russian art and the sumptuous canvases of the painters Nicolai Fechin, Isaac Levitan and Ilya Repin. As Dan says, their paintings are “completely loose yet deliberate and faithful, not at all flashy.” Indeed, the powerful and evocative beauty of Gerhartz‘s paintings are also due in large measure to looseness, honesty and faithfulness of his style. Dan’s paintings embrace a range of subjects, most prominently the female figure in either a pastoral setting or an intimate interior. He is at his best with subjects from everyday life, genre subjects, sacred-idyllic landscapes or figures in quiet repose, meditation or contemplative isolation. His mastery of the female figure, the clothed figure especially, is brilliant. He has drawn inspiration from the very old tradition of romanticism and symbolism. His absolutely lavish surfaces, color and lighting are in harmony with his expressionistic brushstroke, application and modeling of light and shade.
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Daniel Gerhartz
in dit schilderij is zowel wat thematiek als stijl betreft de invloed van Joaquin Sorolla te zien
in dit schilderij is zowel wat thematiek als stijl betreft de invloed van Joaquin Sorolla te zien
Charles Daniel Graves born in Rochester, New York in 1949, is an oil painter, etcher, and Director of The Florence Academy of Art, which he founded in 1991. He lives and works in Florence, Italy, his home for almost thirty years. In his painting and teaching, he blends a broad array of training and experience. He studied with 
Richard Serrin was born in Evanston, Illinois in 1928. His natural talent for drawing, a life-long love of literature, philosophy, and religious studies were instrumental in determining his course of life as an artist. Very early Richard developed a fascination for the masters of the 16th and 17th centuries, particularly Rembrandt. Today, some sixty years later, he is considered an authority on many of these masters, lecturing extensively on their techniques and compositions. After receiving his M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Serrin traveled in Mexico, Europe, and earlier, with the US Army, in Japan. After marrying in 1963, Richard and Dorothy moved to Amsterdam, and in 1964 to Italy, where their two daughters were born. The artist and his wife continue to reside in Florence. Bron: 
