Paul Weber (artist)
Gottlieb Daniel Paul Weber (Darmstadt, 19 January 1823 – Munich 12 October 1916) was a German artist.
Life
He was born in Darmstadt as a son of the composer Johann Daniel Weber (1784–1848). He studied art in Frankfurt at the Städelschule from 1844 to 1848. He completed his studies with Josephus Laurentius Dyckmans in Antwerp.[1]
In 1848 soon after the collapse of the German Republic, at the age of 25, he moved to the United States, settling in Philadelphia, where he was a frequent exhibitor at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1849 onward. He also exhibited at the National Academy of Design, the Brooklyn Art Association, the Boston Athaeneum, the Washington Art Association, and the Paris Salon. Among his students in the class of landscape painting were William Trost Richards, William Stanley Haseltine and Edward Moran. He influenced the Hudson River School.[2] In 1850 his son Carl Weber was born, who became later also a painter of the Hudson River School.
In 1858, Paul Weber went to Darmstadt, where he was appointed court painter to the Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt and taught Princess Alice of the United Kingdom. Later, he moved to Munich where he remained until his death.
Works
Among his works located in the United States are “A Scene in the Catskills,” in the Corcoran Gallery, Washington (1858); “Morning,” in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; and “Lake Chiemsee, in the Bavarian Highlands.”
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Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1889). "Weber, Paul". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.