Max Bohm
{{short description|American painter}}
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| birth_place = Cleveland, Ohio
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| death_place = Provincetown, Massachusetts
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Max Bohm (1868 – September 19, 1923) was an American artist who spent much of his time in Europe.
Biography
Bohm was born in Cleveland, Ohio.{{cite web|title=About Max Bohm|url=http://www.packardgallery.com/max-bohm.html|publisher=Packard Gallery|accessdate=20 October 2010}} He studied at the Académie Julian in Paris and travelled in Europe. Between 1895-1904 he made his home at the Etaples art colony. Described as a romantic visionary, his heroic depiction of Étaples fishermen received a gold medal at the Paris Salon in 1898. He went on to teach painting at a school in London until 1911 before returning to the United States to join the school of artists in Cape Cod.
Bohm became a National Academician in 1920, dying three years later in Provincetown, a town at the tip of Cape Cod.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41307417/max_bohm_dies_in_provincetown/ |title=Max Bohm Dies in Provincetown |work=The Boston Globe |location=Provincetown |page=14 |date=1923-09-20 |access-date=2019-12-29 |via=Newspapers.com}} His paintings are among the collections of the Smithsonian Institution, the National Gallery of Art, and the Luxembourg Gallery in Paris; there is also a mural in his hometown at the Cuyahoga County Courthouse.
Bohm is a grandfather of artist Anne Packard.{{cite web|url=http://www.gingerbreadsquaregallery.com/Paintings/Packard/Packard-Bio/packard-bio.html |title=Anne Packard Biography |publisher=Gingerbreadsquaregallery.com |date= |accessdate=2013-12-14}}
References
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External links
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- [http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll1/id/741/rec/311 Paintings by Max Bohm], an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF)
- [http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll1/id/557/rec/51 Biographical Notes], a catalog of American artists containing additional information on Bohm (page 9).
- [https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/max-bohm-papers-8893 A finding aid to the Max Bohm papers, 1873-1970, bulk 1880-1959, in Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution]
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Category:Artists from Cleveland
Category:19th-century American painters
Category:American male painters
Category:20th-century American painters