TitleHome Again
Artist
Louis Henry Charles Moeller
(1855 - 1930)
Daten.d.
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 30 × 48 in.
Framed: 37 1/2 × 55 1/2 × 3 1/2 in.
SignedSigned at lower right: "Louis Moeller"
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, March 9, 1896
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number878-P
Label TextMoeller was born in New York City. After serving an apprenticeship as a painter of interior decorations he attended art classes at Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design. From 1873-1879 he studied at the Royal Academy in Munich, where his teacher Wilhelm von Diez inspired him to paint interior scenes featuring men in social activity, which ultimately have their basis in 17th-century Dutch genre paintings. Home Again, a comparatively monumental work by the artist, was included in the Academy's 1894 annual exhibition. A critic for The Art Interchange noted that the picture "shows us types from rural New England. An aged, yet well-preserved couple are being welcomed back from somewhere by one who is, doubtless, a friend or neighbor of earlier years. The types are so characteristic, the expressions and attitudes so life-like that the spectator's attention is at once fixed. To these gifts are added precision of drawing, certainty and vigor of touch, firmness of modeling, penetrating observation, with truthful values . . . ."
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- 19th Century Highlights from the Collection
