Beach by Charles Paul Gruppe
Beach by Charles Paul Gruppe
Beach by Charles Paul Gruppe
Beach by Charles Paul Gruppe
Beach by Charles Paul Gruppe
Beach by Charles Paul Gruppe

Beach 1899 - 1906

Charles Paul Gruppe

Watercolour
14 ⨯ 10 cm
ConditionExcellent
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  • About the artwork

    Gruppé was an American who came to the Netherlands to improve his skills as a painter. He was taught by Mesdag in the Hague. With his style he belonged to the Hague school. He is known for his (Katwijk) beach scenes. In America he already enjoyed some fame during his lifetime. At a young age he already drew advertising signs. According to De Rode Scheen he stayed in Dordrecht from 1892-1897, then in New York and in 1898 in The Hague. In 1899 in Katwijk and until 1906 again in The Hague. He has also been a member of the Amsterdam art circle Arti & Amicitiae. Source: de rode Scheen, Lexicon of Dutch Visual Artists, 1750-1950.

  • About the artist

    Charles Paul Gruppé (3 September 1860, Picton, Ontario – 30 September 1940, New York City) was an American painter.
    Landscape and marine painter Charles Paul Gruppe was born in Picton, Canada, September 3, 1860. Largely self-taught, Gruppe did study in Holland and a good portion of his work consists of Holland inspired scenes. His son, artist Emile Gruppe, who painted many well known New England scenes.

    When Gruppe was ten, he moved with his family to Rochester, New York, after the death of his father. Eventually, at age twenty-one, he had earned enough money to travel steerage to Europe, where he traveled through France, Germany, and Holland, searching for a place to settle and practice his art. He was taken with Holland, perhaps attracted to its fishing villages with their picturesque boats and quaint houses, and decided to stay. He built a home and studio in the little fishing village of Katwyk Ann Zee and painted much of his European work in the vicinity of that town.

    Altogether, Gruppe spent over twenty years in Holland, becoming a celebrity artist and ultimately being patronized by the royalty of Europe. His work is represented in many museums in America and Europe.

    All he did have was a strong love of painting which seemed inborn to him, as it was to generations of his family. He painted thousands of paintings in his life that are in the finest collections of Europe and America.

    Charles Paul Gruppe was honored with numerous awards and medals, including gold medals at Paris and Rouen, and two silver medals (watercolor and oil) at the World's Fair in St. Louis in 1903.

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