Artist: Albert Krehbiel (1873 - 1945)
Nationality: American
Movement: American Post-Impressionism, Synchromism
Media: Painting, Drawing, Murals
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Biography:
Born in Denmark, Iowa, in 1873, Albert Henry Krehbiel was a graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago, where, in 1902, he was granted an American Traveling Scholarship to study abroad. In 1903, he began his three years of study at the Academie Julian in Paris under “history” painter and muralist Jean-Paul Laurens. Krehbiel won four gold medals at the Academie Julian (the only American ever to have done so) as well as the coveted Prix de Rome. In 1905, he received the esteemed honor of having two of his neoclassical works selected by jury for the annual exhibition at the Salon Des Artistes Francais in Paris (also known as the Paris Salon). Upon returning to the States in May of 1906, Krehbiel married fellow artist and Art Institute graduate, Dulah Marie Evans, on June 6th (Dulah went on to have an extremely accomplished career in her own right as a painter, printmaker and commercial artist). He was awarded the commission to design and paint the wall mural for the Chicago Juvenile Court Room in 1906 and, 1907, the eleven wall and two ceiling murals for the Supreme and Appellate Court Rooms at the Illinois Supreme Court Building in Springfield, the state's capitol. Krehbiel, with Dulah's assistance, spent four years on the research, preparation and composition of the Supreme Court Building murals, which were completed in 1911. In 1918 and 1919, Krehbiel spent his summers at art colonies in Santa Monica, California, and in Santa Fe, New Mexico. From 1920 through 1923, he spent summers exclusively in Santa Fe as an exhibiting member of the Santa Fe Art Colony. In the summers of 1922 and 1923, Krehbiel was invited by the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe to participate in its Visiting Artists Program and was given a studio in the prestigious Palace of the Governors next to his contemporary, Ashcan realist Robert Henri. Krehbiel was a member of the faculty at the Art Institute of Chicago for 39 years and at the Armour Institute of Technology (later named the Illinois Institute of Technology) for 32 years. In 1926, he helped pioneer the Chicago Art Institute Summer School of Painting (later named Ox-Bow) in Saugatuck, Michigan, where he spent most of his remaining summers teaching and painting. In 1934, Krehbiel opened his own summer school of art in Saugatuck called the AK Studio. During his prolific career, Krehbiel's works were shown in a multitude of exhibitions. Among the already mentioned, Krehbiel's career resume of prominent exhibitions includes the following: The American Art Association in Paris, Paris, France, 1905 The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1923, 1928, and 1931 The Fiesta Exhibition of Paintings by Artists of New Mexico at the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe, 1923 The First Exhibition of the National Society of Mural Painters at the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, 1925 A total of thirty-two exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1906 through 1939 Throughout the years, Krehbiel painted continuously and amassed a vast and diverse body of work. From the Impressionistic hue of his brightly colored Santa Fe and Santa Monica landscapes to his historic Chicago cityscapes, wooded presentations of the rural Midwest and Synchromistic Saugatuck depictions, he portrayed his environment incessantly without regard for the elements. Albert Krehbiel died on June 29th, 1945, the very day of his retirement from the Illinois Institute of Technology (he had recently agreed to stay on at the Art Institute of Chicago for one more year). Information provided by Don Ryan

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Albert H. Krehbiel Online
Albert Henry Krehbiel (1873-1945), American Impressionist and Muralist
Krehbiel, Albert H.
Albert Krehbiel - Artist Portfolio at absolutearts.com
Krehbiel, Albert H; Pastel, signed, Stream & Fallen Leaves. [p4a.com, ltd.]
SIRIS-Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
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