Biography from The Columbus Museum-Georgia:
| Hendrik Glintenkamp, a painter, printmaker and editor, was part of an
artistic milieu that included such influential figures as Robert Henri,
John Sloan and Stuart Davis. Like many American artists of the early
twentieth century, his personal aesthetic underwent a major
transformation after his participation in the Armory Show of 1913. (1)
Glintenkamp attended classes at the National Academy of Design in New
York from 1903 until 1906. The next two years were spent at the
New York School of Art, where his teachers included Robert Henri and
John Sloan. In 1908, Glintenkamp began sharing studio space with
his friends and colleagues, Stuart Davis and Glenn O. Coleman, the trio
sharing a commitment to Henri's artistic philosophy.
In 1910, Glintenkamp's work was included in the Exhibition of
Independent Artists, organized by Henri, Sloan, Arthur B. Davies and
several others. Glintenkamp was also among the American
contingent exhibiting at the 1913 Armory Show. Like many artists
of his generation, Henry Glintenkamp was deeply inspired by the
painting he saw at this major exhibition, a landmark event, which
introduced the art of the European vanguard to American
audiences. He soon abandoned his former style of the Ashcan
School, and went on to evolve his own distinctive approach, conjoining
the vibrant colors and bold brushwork of Fauvism and Expressionism with
his own highly intuitive response to the world around him.
His paintings from the 1920s and 1930s--ranging from views of New York,
Mexico, England and Scandinavia to landscapes and the occasional
portrait--comprise his finest work and attest to the impact of European
modernism on his artistic development. Glintenkamp died in New York in
March of 1946.
Ten years later, Raphael Soyer, Philip Evergood and several other
artists arranged a memorial exhibition of Glintenkamp's work, held at
the Art of Today Gallery in Manhattan.
His paintings can be found in the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others.
Source
1) I am indebted to Lisa Peters, Carol Lowrey and the Spanierman Gallery for sharing valuable information on Glintenkamp.
Charles T. Butler, Columbus Museum |
Biography from AskART:
| Henry J. (Hendrik) Glitemkamp, born in 1887, exhibited in the famous
1913 Armory Show in New York City. A painter, printmaker,
illustrator and sculptor, he studied at the Art Students League in New
York City with Robert Henri. Glintenkamp, from 1913-1917, created
illustrations for The Masses, the leftist magazine, working
with editor-artist John Sloan, and painters George Bellows and Stuart
Davis, and sharing a studio for a time with the latter artist.
Glintenkamp's oil painting, Excavation Scene,
c. 1910, 18 x 24, depicts in monochromatic, warm colors, a gaping
foreground hole and remnants of walls flanked back and side by
buildings and a construction crane. His Urban Rivals,
1911, 20 x 26, uses Ash-Can School realism to show a white dog and
black cat in front of walls covered with tattered posters. Hoboken Rooftops is a moody, romantic, close-up of rooftops and misty distant harbor; darkly leaden, as if before a coming storm.
Henry
Glintenkamp's woodcuts, like his paintings often depicting urban life
in New York City, Mexico and Spain, were boldly simplified to intense
areas of black and white. His wood engravings and drawings
explored similar subjects.
Glintencamp lived in Mexico for extended periods during the first
decades of the 20th century. He was friends with writer John Dos
Passos and painter Diego Rivera. After life there and travels in
England, he worked for the WPA (Federal Art Project) in New York City.
Glintenkamp's book, A Wanderer in Woodcuts,
was published in 1932 by Farrar & Rinehart in New York City.
It describes the artist's European experience, with a woodcut on every
right-hand page, and a modest amount of text on the left.
His woodcut, Construction, is in the collection of Georgetown University, in Washington, D.C.
Henry Glintenkamp died in 1946.
Sources include:
http://www.artregister.com/ZimmermannCatalogue/American/glintenkamp.html
http://www.annexgalleries.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?Hendrik-Glintenkamp++14807
http://www.artnet.com/Auction/AuctionsOnLineDetail_Preview.asp?LotID=2846380&Page=3&T=44&AUID=26354
http://www.modotti.net/PrjTeam.htm
http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/pl%7D55.htm#Glintenkamp,%20Hendrik%20%20(1887%20-%201946)
http://fanac.org/fanzines/IGOTS/igots15.htm
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Hendrik Glintenkamp is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
New York Armory Show of 1913
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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