Schwarz Gallery - Catalog 75 - New Jersery Remembered: Seventy-fifth Anniversary Exhibition



Catalogue Cover Title page Copyright/Colophon Preface & Acknowledgements Introduction (1 2 3 4 ) Thumbnail Images Plates [ sort by Artist ] Birch, Thomas Constable, William Gullager, Christian Lawrence, Unknown after Charles Bird Lawrence, Attributed to Charles Bird Eddy, Oliver Tarbell Winner, William E. Bonnell, William C. Bonfield, George Robert Carmiencke Johann Hermann Humphreys, Charles Spencer Toronto Jersey Blue Trotter, Newbold Hough Hamilton, James Beach at Atlantic City In the Inlet, Atlantic City Richards, Frederick de Bourg Beach Scene Atlantic City Beach Scene with Sailboats Herzog, Hermann Richards, William Trost New Jersey Shore Waves Crashing Against the Shore Bonfield, William van de Velde Lewis, Edmund Darch Cape May, New Jersey Looking up the Beach, Cape May Jersey Coast Beach Scene Essig, George Emerick Harbor View w/Sailboats & Steamers Jersey Shore Dunes Barnegat Lighthouse Atlantic City Windmill and Sailboat Willcox, William H. Smith, Xanthus Cape May Beach Atlantic City, New Jersey Three Figures w/Rowboat, A.C., N.J. Waller, Frank Church, Morristown Red Foliage with Cows Grazing The Beach Afternoon, Morristown House and Garden, Morristown Beale, Joseph Boggs Judson, William Lees Weber, Carl Clark, Frederick H. Holloway, Edward Stratton Freedley, George Harrison Atlantic City from the Bay Beach Scene, Atlantic City Morris, George Spencer King, Paul Bernard Patterson, Amelia Rumsey D’Ascenzo, Nicola Koehler, Paul R. Cameron, Peter Caledon Absecon Island, New Jersey Sandhills @ Ventnor: Atlantic City Island Sunset over the Salt Meadows Gloaming on Tuckerton Salt Marshes Creek and Marsh, Absecon Island Farley, Richard Blossom At the Seashore Ocean City, New Jersey People on the Beach Cain, Cecilia A. Sorver, J. D. Griffith, Ella N. Krick, David M. Schoonover, Frank E. Howard, Edith Lucile Sunset on the Jersey Marshes Beach Scene Gechtoff, Leonid Licini, Frank Lie, Jonas Kelly, Leon Sailboat Race, Harvey Cedars, NJ Barnegat Bay, Fishery Blackburn, Morris Atkinson Campbell, Hugh H. Chard, Daniel	Carl Weber (1850–1921) Near Anglesea, New Jersey Watercolor on paper, 13 1/2 × 26 3/4 inches Signed at lower right: “Carl Weber” Inscribed in pencil on verso: “After the rain/near Anglesea/N.J.” Carl Weber was born in Philadelphia, the son of the German immigrant and landscape painter Gottlieb Daniel Paul Weber (1823–1916). Carl and his father went to Darmstadt in 1861 and were guests of the Grand Duke of Hessia-Darmstadt. He studied at the Munich Royal Academy of Fine Art with the landscapist Karl Raupp (1837–1918). He also took private lessons from two professors at the Städelsche Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt, the genre and landscape painter Jakob Becker (1810–1872) and the history painter Johann Eduard von Steinle (1810–1886), both professors at the Stäedelsche Kunstinstitut in Frankfort. The institute’s records indicate that Weber had never been registered there, so he may have taken private lessons from Becker and Steinle. Afterwards he spent a year in Paris. Weber returned to Philadelphia sometime in the mid-1870s. He married Clara Kaiser, daughter of the noted interior decorator Otto Ferdinand Maximillian Constantine von Kaiser, who was related to the German emperor Wilhelm II. Weber shared a studio with his cousin, the musician Carl Philip Weber, and exhibited intermittently at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1876 to 1905 and at the Philadelphia Art Club from 1891 to 1908. He also exhibited at the National Academy of Design from 1881 to 1893. He was a member of the Philadelphia Artists’ Fund Society and the American Art Association, which awarded him a Gold Medal in 1902. After 1891 Weber worked at a studio at 816 Chestnut Street, the same address as Earle’s Gallery, where many Philadelphia artists exhibited and sold their work. He received an honorable mention both at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 and at the Atlanta Exposition in 1895. Weber died in Ambler, Pennsylvania, and was buried at Rose Hill cemetery.¹ Weber was a successful landscape painter in Philadelphia, particularly noted for his views of rural Pennsylvania; many of his paintings were done in the vicinity of Johnstown. Occasionally he painted in New Jersey, New England, and Illinois. Weber’s mature work was influenced by the French Barbizon style, yet he always retained more than a vestige of the German academic training. Certainly he was strongly influenced by German plein air painters such as Eduard Schleich the Elder (1812–1874), and Adolph-Heinrich Lier (1826–1882). Anglesea is a borough and seaside fishing resort on Hereford Inlet on the northern end of Five Mile Beach in Cape May County. Development began there in 1879, when Humphrey Cresse sold his title to Anglesea to a Philadelphia real estate and railroad entrepreneur, who incorporated the Angelsea Land Company in 1882. The following year the area was made directly accessible from Camden via a new road connected to the West Jersey Railroad. Anglesea became a borough in 1885 and was renamed North Wildwood in 1906. Notes 1. The main source of information on Weber and his father is [add author or editor] Philadelphia Artists: The Weber Family, Philadelphia Collection, vol. XXIX (Philadelphia: Schwarz Gallery, 1985). Copyright ©2005 The Schwarz Gallery

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