Paul Weber

Gottlieb Daniel Paul Weber (19 January 1823 – 12 October 1916) was a German artist. Weber is known for his ethereal and timeless landscape paintings of early northeast America. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1848 and though he returned to Germany around 1860 his influence on American landscape painting was still felt for years.

Early life Weber was born in Darmstadt, Germany the son of the composer Johann Daniel Weber (1784–1848). He studied art at the Städelschen Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt before, two years later, moving to Munich to study at the Academy in Munich which became his home base except when he lived in America. Paul had a nephew named Carl Philipp Weber who also became a painter.

Selection of works

Wooded Landscape with Lake and Mountains, 1854, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Hudson River Landscape, 1854, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY View on the Ohio River, 1855, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI Landscape: Evening, 1856, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA A Scene in the Catskills, 1858, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Chestnut Hill Near Philadelphia, 1863 and Landscape with Two Cows, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA Swiss Landscape, 1859, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA Forest scene, mid-1800s, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD Summer Landscape, 1861 and Haying Scene, 1863, Samuel Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY Pennsylvania Landscape, 1862, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA Crater Lake in Scottish Highlands, 1861 and Steep Coast (Mediterranean Landscape),1863, Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany Braddock's Field, 1854; Braddock's Grave and Fort Necessity, 1855, Fort Ligonier

Awards

1858: Silver medal at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia 1865: Golden medal at the exhibition at the London Crystal Palace

Exhibitions (selection) 1901: VIII. International art exhibition in the glass palace, Munich 1902 Great Berlin Art Exhibition 1912: Munich annual exhibition in the glass palace 1917: Paul Weber Memorial at the Heinemann Gallery, Munich 1918: Paul Weber Darmstädter Kunstverein