Henriette Amiard Oberteuffer (June 20, 1877 – 1962) was a French-born American painter, muralist, printmaker, and educator.
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| Born | June 20, 1877  Le Havre |
| Died | 1962 (aged 84–85) Lexington |
| Occupation | Artist |
| Spouse(s) | George Oberteuffer |
| Children | Karl Oberteuffer |
She was born Henriette Aurélie Eugénie Amiard on June 20, 1877 in Le Havre, France, the daughter of Charles Etienne Amiard and Victorine Alexandrine Daquet.[1] Her father was a coal merchant and amateur artist.[2]
She studied under Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens at the Académie Julian in Paris. She exhibited with the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Indépendants.[2][3] At the Académie, she met American artist George Oberteuffer. They married in 1905. Their son was the painter Karl Oberteuffer. The Oberteuffers moved to the United States in 1919.[2][4]
In 1922, they moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where George Oberteuffer worked as an art teacher and both Oberteuffers ran a summer art school in Cedarburg, Wisconsin. They both exhibited regionally and both won the prestigious Logan Prize from the Art Institute of Chicago, George in 1926 for a portrait of Henriette, and Henriette in 1927 for The Yellow Dress.[5] In the 1930s, they both taught art in Memphis, Tennessee, first at the Lee Academy, then the Memphis Academy of Arts.[6]
Henriette Oberteuffer won a competition to create a Works Progress Administration mural in the US Post Office and Courthouse in Vicksburg, Mississippi (now a privately owned building in the Uptown Vicksburg Historic District). The mural, Vicksburg—Its Character and Industries, was installed in 1939.[7]
Henriette Oberteuffer's work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago,[8] the Phillips Collection,[9] and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.[10]
Henriette Amiard Oberteuffer died in Massachusetts in 1962.[5]
References
edit- ^ Ancestry.com, Paris, France, Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1555-1929, Henriette Aurélie Eugénie Amiard.
- ^ a b c Raynor, Vivien (21 Apr 1978). "Art: Scenes From A Marriage". New York Times. pp. C21.
- ^ Falk, Peter H. (1985). Who was who in American art : compiled from the original thirty-four volumes of American art annual--Who's who in art, biographies of American artists active from 1898-1947. Internet Archive. Madison, Conn. : Sound View Press. ISBN 978-0-932087-00-3.
- ^ Spicer, Thelma A.; Costello, Meg. Karl Oberteuffer and His Hopeful Dawn (PDF). Untold Tales of Falmouth from the archives of Museums on the Green.
- ^ a b Karel, David (1992). Dictionnaire des artistes de langue française en Amérique du Nord: peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs, graveurs, photographes, et orfèvres (in French). Presses Université Laval. ISBN 978-2-7637-7235-6.
- ^ Rust, Randal. "Memphis College of Art". Tennessee Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
- ^ Park, Marlene; Markowitz, Gerald E. (1984). Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal. Temple University Press. ISBN 978-0-87722-348-1.
- ^ "Henriette Amiard Oberteuffer". The Art Institute of Chicago. 1878. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
- ^ "Henriette A. Oberteuffer | The Phillips Collection". www.phillipscollection.org. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
- ^ "Lucille, Torso of a Young Woman, Henriette Amiard Oberteuffer ^ Minneapolis Institute of Art". collections.artsmia.org. Retrieved 2024-02-19.