MAX WEYL (1837 - 1914) Artist of Washington D.C. landscapes.
Golden Autumn
Lower Potomac River Coastal
Golden Autumn
Oil on Canvas
Rock Creek Park
20"x 24"
Mid Summer Day
Lower Potomac River Coastal
Golden Autumn
Oil on Canvas
22 1/2" x 27 1/2"
"SOLD"
Lower Potomac River Coastal
Lower Potomac River Coastal
Lower Potomac River Coastal
Oil on Canvas
16 1/2" x 25 1/2"
Still Life
Apple Blossom Trees
Lower Potomac River Coastal
Oil on Board
Very Rare Early Still Life Example
16" x 21"
Harvest Fall Day
Apple Blossom Trees
Apple Blossom Trees
Oil on Canvas
15" x 21"
Apple Blossom Trees
Apple Blossom Trees
Apple Blossom Trees
Oil on Canvas
18" x 22"
Artist Information
Max Weyl
Max Weyl
Max Weyl
Max Weyl was born in Muhlen-am-Neckar, a small town in the Baden-Wurtemberg region of southern Germany. His parents' names were Veit Hirsch Weyl and Emma Miriam Goetz. In 1853 his family immigrated to Williamsport, Pennsylvania, where Weyl worked in watch and clock repair, a trade he had learned through an early apprenticeship. In 1857, he moved to Washington, D.C. and became a jeweler with a retail store on 7th Street NW in a building that still stands and is currently used as a Ruby Tuesday restaurant.
Max also was active in the then-small Washington Jewish community. In the 1870s, local businessman, Samuel H. Kauffman, publisher of the Evening Star newspaper, took noontime walks on 7th Street and observed Weyl's paintings on display in the shop window. Kauffman purchased some of Weyl's works and became his patron, financing a trip for Weyl to study art professionally in Europe. In 1878, under Kauffman's patronage, Weyl undertook a year of study abroad, visiting studios and galleries in Munich, Paris, Vienna and Venice. After his return to Washington, he and a group of fellow artists formed the "Washington Landscape School", resulting in paintings "plein air" paintings of Washington pastoral scene. Weyl came to be called the "American Daubigny" and his works became very popular among Washington art collectors. His work became part of collections including the White House where purchases were made by Mrs. Grover Cleveland and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Georgetown University, the Virginia Military Institute, Kiplinger Washington Editors, the Cosmos Club and many others. On Weyl's 70th birthday in 1907, the Corcoran Gallery of Art held a retrospective exhibit of his work. A group of local citizens purchased and donated a work by him to the National Gallery of Art. In recognition and praise they stated: "From the standpoint of art you have contributed works of genius that will stand for all time: while your bearing as a man, citizen and friend has been of that modest and yet far-reaching character that wins the love and retains the esteem of those with whom you have come in contact." Weyl died in 1914.
*From Wikipedia
Max Weyl
Max Weyl
Max Weyl
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