Twachtman
was one of the most lyrical landscape painters among the American
impressionists. Born in Cincinnati he was the son of immigrant
parents from Hanover, Germany. Study in art at the Ohio Mechanics
Institute, the McMicken School of Design, and then the Royal Academy
in Munich. He exhibited in the first exhibition of The Society
of American Artists, an organization founded in 1877 by European
trained artists who wanted an alternative exhibition group to
the conservative National Academy of Design. In 1883 he returned
to Europe enrolling in the Academie Julian in Paris and painting
in the private studios of Lefebvre and Boulanger. Later he helped to found The
Ten American Painters - a group of ten impressionist and tonalist painters who
wanted to be independent from the Society of American Artists.
Related artists include: Lawson, Mercalf, J A
Weir, Wendel
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