Albert henry krehbiel artwork by picasso

  • Two abstract Picasso style paintings demonstrated by Albert H. Krehbiel which were exhibited at the Cliff Dwellers in Chicago.
  • Albert H. Krehbiel, American, - Riverbend, ca.
  • Inspired by a major exhibition of works by Pablo Picasso at The Art Institute of Chicago in , Krehbiel also drew a number of colorful large abstract.

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    Albert H. Krehbiel

    Albert Henry Krehbiel was born in Denmark, Iowa in Moving with his family to Newton, Kansas, in , he spent his early years studying art at the School of Design and Painting in Topeka. There, in , Krehbiel was discovered on a lecture tour by the director of the Art Institute of Chicago, William Merchant French, who encouraged the young artist to attend the Institute’s renowned art school. Krehbiel made the trek to Chicago by bicycle at the age of twenty four to enroll in the school’s fall semester. By his fifth year at the Art Institute, Albert Krehbiel had earned over 39 honorable mentions and received an appointment as an instructor in the regular day and evening classes. Krehbiel was awarded an American Traveling Scholarship by the Art Institute in to study in Europe. After visiting Holland, he moved to France to settle in a small studio on the left bank of Paris. Krehbiel enrolled in the prestigious Académie Julian in to study under the famed Neo-Classicist in

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    Synchromistic Works –- Abstractionism, a Culmination

     

    In , Krehbiel began a series of synchromistic figure compositions, first in watercolor and in oil on small unstretched pieces of canvas and, later in pastel and in oil on larger canvases. The figures in this series reproduce the postures of models in his art classes and, while naturalistic at first, they gradually become geometric, even somewhat cubist. In , Krehbiel wrote in a letter to Evans:

    ". . . .(I) never thought of them as nudes, but simply as a power in organization. . . . it became a problem of thrusts and counter thrusts, much like a chess game."

    Krehbiel developed these experiments into a method of teaching figure by having students compose while drawing. Sketches of a three-figure model group, observed from various points in the room, would be rendered on a single sheet of paper – or a series of quick poses by one model would be composed on a single sheet. In regard to this teaching method, Kr

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    1) Albert Krehbiel: An American Impressionist , by Kim Coventry; Sonnenschien Gallery, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois; ; 11 pp., ill.

    2) Albert Krehbiel, Santa Fe Works , exhibition catalogue bygd Catherine Whitney; Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, ; 35 pp., color ill.; ISBN

    3) Krehbiel, Life and Works of an American Artist , bygd Robert Guinan; pp., color ill; Regnery Gateway, ; ISBN (acid-free paper)

    4) Albert H. Krehbiel - An Architect's Appreciation , article in Illinois Society of Architects, Monthly Bulletin ; October - November ; Vol. 30, Nos. 4 - 5.

     

    Albert H. Krehbiel - An Architect's Appreciation, article in Illinois gemenskap of Architects, Monthly Bulletin; October - November ; Vol. 30, Nos. 4 - 5.

    Albert Henry Krehbiel, ; Early American Impressionist, article bygd Rebecca F. Krehbiel (Mrs. Evans L.) in the Journal of the Illinois Historical Society, ISSN , Spring ; pp. 14 -

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