Biography from Art Cellar Exchange:
| Emile Gruppe (1896-1978) Master of Water Scenes
Son of renowned painter Charles Gruppe, Emile was born in 1896 and, in addition to his father's artistic influence, attended the Carnegie Art School where he studied with George Bridgeman, the Arts Students League, Woodstock NY under John F. Carlson, Provincetown, MA with Charles Hawthorne, Richard Miller, and George Chapman. He briefly interrupted his career when he entered the Unites States Navy in 1917 and served for a year.
Gruppe painted numerous works throughout his life. He is best known for his impressionistic landscapes, painted figures and portraits - especially for "his views of fishing boats docked at Gloucester and Rockport, and for his Rockport village scenes." For the majority of his professional career, he worked and lived in Gloucester, Massachusetts, often wintering in Vermont and Florida. In 1942, he founded the Gruppe Summer School in Gloucester with his mentors Miller, Carlson, Bridgeman, and Chapman.
Like many artists of the time, Gruppe was largely influenced by the work of Claude Monet. In his various paintings of the Bass Rocks area, Gruppe offers a view of the dramatic rocky seashore as it's majestic waves crash through it. A common theme in his work, his views of the coast differ in the time of day, season, and point of view, with variant intentions affecting the depth and breadth of brushstroke and the thickness of paint. Gruppe reveals the conflict of the sea and the formidable rocky coastline against the calm orange light of the early morning, or the deep orange sunset as a day draws to a close. He paints the rocks thick and heavy, but uses a surprisingly delicate hand to convey the variations in the sky.
Gruppe lived a long and prolific life, passionate about his art and about sharing the joys and skills of visual creativity with future generations. He died in 1978 at the age of 82. In one of his last interviews revealed his philosophy of painting: "If you want exacting details in a painting, than you might as well look at a photograph. I make an impression on a canvas, and let one's imagination fill in the details."
Gruppe's works can be found in the Richmond Art Museum, the Hickory Museum of Art, Springville Museum of Art, Whistler House Museum of Art, and more. His works are highly collectible and have brought dramatic prices near $40,000 at auction.
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Biography from Pierce Galleries, Inc.:
| EMILE A. GRUPPE (American, 1896-1978)
Emile A. Gruppe was a painter-teacher who was born in 1896, the son of renown painter Charles P. Gruppe (1860-1940). He lived throughout his professional painting career in Gloucester, MA and wintered in Jeffersonille, VT and Sarasota, FL.
Gruppe studied at the National Academy (NYC), at the Grande Chaumiere, Paris; and with John F. Carlson, Richard Miller, George Bridgman, Charles Chapman and Charles Hawthorne (in Provincetown) and by 1930 he was known for his fluid, lucid post-impressionist scenes of the American landscape and of Gloucester boating views.
Member: Salmagundi Club; North Shore Art Association (1929-1978); Rockport Art Association; Gloucester Society of Artists; Allied Artists of America; Longboat Key AA; Sarasota AA; Grand Central Art Galleries; Rochester AA; Audubon Artists; Northern Vermont Artists; New Haven Paint & Clay Club; CAFA; Meriden Arts & Crafts; St. Augustine AA; Academic Artists, Springfield, MA.
AWARDS include: Allied Artists of America (1944); Springville, Utah (1928, 1946); Guilford, CT (1939); Meriden Arts & Crafts (1939, 1946); CAFA (1956); Rockport AA (1956, 1957); New Haven Paint & Clay Club (1935, 1938, 1939, 1940); Bridgeport, CT AA (1940); Champlain Valley Exposition (1949) and others.
Work: L.A. Museum of Art; Witte Memorial Museum; Smith College; Univ. of Idaho; Webber College’ San Antonio Museum, TX; New Haven PCC; DeCordova & Dana Museum, Lincoln, MA; White House, Washington, D.C.; Silverman College, Montreal, Canada; Montclair Art Museum; Speed Museum of Art; Butler Art Institute; Swope Gallery of Art.
Murals: Gloucester National Bank; Calloway Mills, LaGrange, GA; MacDonalds, Beverly MA.
In "Who Was Who in American Art", (p. 1396, vol. 2) Peter Falk states, “Best known for his views of fishing boats docked at Gloucester and Rockport, and for his Rockport village scenes. Founder of the Gruppe Summer School, Gloucester, MA 1942.” He is also well recognized for his views of Florida, where he wintered. |
Biography from Charleston Renaissance Gallery:
| Emile Gruppe was the son of landscape artist Charles P. Gruppe, who lived and painted in Europe for 25 years before settling in the United States. Emile Gruppe was born in 1896 in Rochester, New York.
Gruppe had a very strong art background. In addition to being raised by an artistic father, he was also educated in his profession in the Hague in the Netherlands and at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League in New York City. He also received instruction from artists George Bridgeman, Charles Chapman, Richard Miller and John F. Carlson, with whom he would later found the Gruppe Summer School in Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1942.
Gruppe's artistic career began in 1915, but was briefly interrupted in 1917, when he spent a year in the United States Navy. He made his permanent studio in Gloucester.
Although Gruppe is best known for his variety of impressionistic landscapes, he also painted figures and portraits. His modern style was largely inherited from French impressionist Monet. {Lily Pads}, one of Gruppe's landscapes, attests to Monet's influence; it is similar to some of the paintings in Monet's Water Lily Series.
Gruppe's prolific career brought him many awards and memberships. His popular painting {Winter - Vermont} won the Richard Mitton Award at the Jordan Marsh Exhibition in Boston in 1943. He died in 1978.
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Biography from Roger King Fine Art, A - G:
| Emile Gruppe, son of painter Charles Gruppe, was born in Rochester, New York. Part of his childhood was spent in Holland, where his father worked as an art dealer. In the United States he apprenticed to his uncle, a sign painter.
He attended the National Academy School, the Art Students League, the Grande Chamiere in Paris, and studied with John F. Carlson, Richard Miller, George Bridgman, C. Chapman and Charles Hawthorne.
Gruppe was a resourceful artist, teaching, painting posters for movies and prizefights, doing landscape backgrounds for an animal artist, and briefly working in advertising. He was one of the first artists in Rockport, Massachusetts to advertise his paintings for sale at a time when most artists sold their works in city galleries. After the Great Depression, he spent winters painting in Vermont, rejoining his family each summer in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where he ran the Gruppe Summer School.
Gruppe spent nearly sixty years working almost exclusively as a plein-air artist, until suffering a slight stroke in his late seventies. His work grew looser and freer as his career progressed. He is best known for his fishing scenes and views of Rockport and Gloucester. Gruppe enjoyed a national reputation, and exhibited widely throughout the United States.
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Biography from AskART:
| Born in Rochester, New York, Emile Gruppe became a renowned New England landscape and marine painter. Although he is best known for his variety of Impressionistic landscapes, he also painted figures and portraits. His modern style was largely inherited from French Impressionist Claude Monet. "Lily Pads," date and location unknown, one of Gruppes landscapes, attests to Monets influence and is similar to some of the paintings in Monets "Water Lily" series.
He was the son of landscape artist Charles Paul Gruppe, and was born in 1896 in Rochester, New York. He had a very strong art background. In addition to being raised by an artistic father, he was also educated in art at The Hague in the Netherlands and in New York City at the National Academy of Design and The Arts Students League. He also received instruction from artists George Bridgeman, Charles Chapman, Richard Miller and John F. Carlson, with whom he would later founded, in 1942, the Gruppe Summer School in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He made his permanent studio in Gloucester.
His artistic career had begun in 1915, but was briefly interrupted in 1917 when he spent a year in the United States Navy.
Gruppes prolific career brought him many awards and memberships. His popular painting "Winter, Vermont," date and location unknown, won the Richard Mitton Award at the Jordan Marsh Exhibition in Boston in 1843.
Source: "American Art Analog" by Michael David Zellman. Vol. III, p. 911 |
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