Theodore Wendel - Louis Ritter

Theodore Wendel “ Champs de fleurs à Giverny, vers 1887“ oil on canvas 31,7 x 54,9 cm

Midway, Ohio.
1859-1932
Ipswich, Massachusetts.

  1876-1877 Attends the McMicken School of Design in Cincinnati

  1878-1880 Attends the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he becomes friends with the artist Frank Duveneck. Travels in Europe, notably in Polling in Bavaria, to Florence and Venice.

  1886-1887 Attends the Academy Julian in Paris. Stays in Giverny in 1886, 1887 and 1888.

  1888 Returns to the United States.

  1889 Exhibits impressionist landscapes in Boston.

  1892-1897 Lives in Boston. Teaches at Cowles Art School and Wellesley College.

  1898 Moves to a farm at Ipswich (Massachusetts) and paints landscapes. Exhibits regulary in Boston, New York and Philadelphia.

Louis Ritter “ Giverny (details), 1887, oil on canvas 65,7 x 54,3 cm

Poughkeepsie,
New York
1854-1892
Boston

  1873-1874 Attends the McMicken School of Design in Cincinnati.

  Vers 1875 Produces lithographs.

  1878-1880 Attends the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he becomes friends with the artist Frank Duveneck. Travels in Europe, notably in Polling in Bavaria, to Florence and Venice.

  1881-1885 Lives for two years in Cincinnati then in Boston.

  1885 Stays in Barbizon.

  1887 Stays and paints in Giverny.

  1888 Stays in Florence

  1889 Returns in Boston. Teaches at Wellesley College. Exhibits bregulary at the St. Botolph Club and at the Watercolor Society of Boston.