Frank Duveneck

Frank Duveneck was an American figure and portrait painter.

In 1869, he went abroad to study with Wilhelm von Diez and Wilhelm Leibl at the Royal Academy of Munich, where he learned a dark, realistic, and direct style of painting. He subsequently became one of the young American painters-others were William Merritt Chase, John Henry Twachtman, Willis Seaver Adams, and Walter Shirlaw-who in the 1870s overturned the traditions of the Hudson River School and started a new art movement characterized by a greater freedom of paint application.

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