Gari Melchers (1860-1932)
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Born Julius Garibaldi Melchers in 1860 in Detroit, Michigan, Melchers’s sculptor father nurtured Gari’s interest in art at a young age. When he was seventeen years old, Gari moved to Germany to study painting with Peter Johann Theodor Janssen and Eduard von Gebhardt at the Royal Prussian Academy of Art. In 1881 Gari enrolled at the Ecole de Beaux-Arts and the Académie Julian in Paris. During his time in school, his studies focused mainly on figure painting.
Later in 1915, Gari eventually moved back to the United States where he was elected an academician of the National Academy of Design, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters as well as serving as president of the New Society of Artists. Melchers is well known for his paintings of Dutch peasant life. His works are displayed in the library of the University of Michigan, Metropolitan Museum, Smithsonian Institute and the Art Institute in Chicago.
Later in 1915, Gari eventually moved back to the United States where he was elected an academician of the National Academy of Design, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters as well as serving as president of the New Society of Artists. Melchers is well known for his paintings of Dutch peasant life. His works are displayed in the library of the University of Michigan, Metropolitan Museum, Smithsonian Institute and the Art Institute in Chicago.