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An example of work by Pauline Amalie (Rudolph) Dohn
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Pauline Amalie Dohn, whom friends called "Lena", was born in Chicago in
1866. Her father Adolph W. Dohn was the first conductor of the Apollo
Musical Club and later a founder of the Chicago Orchestral
Association. A brilliant child she graduated from high school at
the age of thirteen and entered the Chicago Academy of Design,
graduating in 1882 (at that point the Academy merged with the School of
the Art Institute of Chicago).
She went to Philadelphia to
study with Thomas Anshutz and Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts from 1883 to 1885. Between 1885 and 1887, she
traveled throughout Europe before enrolling at the Academie Julian
under Gustave Clarence Radolphe Boulanger, Gustave Courtois, and
Jules-Joseph Lefebvre in 1887. From 1887 to 1889, she also
studied with Luc Oliver Merson and Charles Lasar. While in Paris
she earned an honorable mention at the Salon Societe des Artistes
Francais in 1888.
Pauline Dohn returned home in 1890 to teach at
the School of the Art Institute and established her studio with fellow
artist Annie Weaver Jones. They were both very active in the
ladies Palette Club, which featured the finest women artists in Chicago
of the day. Pauline became president of the organization in 1892
and served a one year term. An avid traveler and student, she
visited Europe three more times before the turn of the century, and in
1895 she studied with Gari Melchers and George Hitchcock in Holland.
Just
before leaving for Holland she had she won Chicago's most prestigious
award, the Charles Tyson Yerkes Prize at the Chicago Society of Artists
annual exhibition for a portrait of her sister, Mary. She went on
to win several more prizes through 1905 when she ceased exhibiting, at
the age of forty, most likely as the result of her marriage to local
businessman Frank Rudolph in 1901. The two enjoyed a fine
marriage until his death in 1922. Pauline Dohn died June 19, 1934
while traveling in California.
Source:
Submitted March 2004 by Joel Dryer, Director, Illinois Historical Art Project
Note
of December 2004 from Joel Dryer: "Since doing research on Pauline A.
Dohn's European travels we have located a port of entry form from Ellis
Island upon her return from Europe in September 1894, which places here
age at 28 yr. 2 mo.
Therefore, she was born in 1866, not 1865.
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Pauline
Dohn was a prominent woman artist in Chicago where she was born in
1866. Her art training was in Chicago art schools, in Philadelphia at
the Pennsylvania Academy with Thomas Anshutz and Thomas Eakins, and in
Paris at the Academie Julian with Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre and
Gustave Boulanger.She exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1888.
Returning
to Chicago, she established her studio and became a member of the
Palette Club. She exhibited at the Chicago Art Institute, the Boston
Art Club, the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and the Pennsylvania Academy.
Her painting of the Inter-State Industrial Building is on the cover of "Chicago History", Spring 1987.
She
was married to Chicago businessman Franklin Rudolph, and although her
married name was Pauline Dohn Rudolph, in the art world she has always
been known as Pauline A Dohn. This is the way she signed her paintings.
Sources:
Charles Rudolph, grandson of the artist
Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art |
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| Born in Chicago, IL in 1865. Mrs. Rudolph studied at the PAFA and in Paris with Boulanger, Lefebvre, Lasar, and Couture. Most of her life was spent in her native city. She died in Los Angeles in 1934.
Member: Palette & Chisel Club; Chicago Society of Artists.
| Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
AAA 1933
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