Henry Alexander

{"Id":8503,"Name":"Henry Alexander","Biography":"\u003Cp\u003EHenry Alexander (1860 \u0026ndash; May 15, 1894) was an American painter from California.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe was born in San Francisco.[1] After early exhibiting a talent for drawing and painting, he went to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where his teachers were Ludwig von Loeffts and the history painter Wilhelm Lindenschmidt.[2]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAside from a few \u003Cem\u003Etrompe-l\u0027\u0026oelig;il\u003C/em\u003E paintings, his paintings generally depict individuals within highly detailed interiors. He is especially known for his paintings of men in cluttered offices filled with business furnishings or laboratory equipment, such as his several paintings of the mineralogist Thomas Price.[1] He also painted Chinese and Japanese subjects.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe left San Francisco for New York City on April 15, 1887, in order to be at the center of the art world, but he suffered from money troubles and alcoholism. He had a studio at 51 West Tenth Street. The other artists in the building avoided him, because he was always trying to borrow money.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlexander\u0027s work attracted enough notice that the \u003Cem\u003ENew York Herald\u003C/em\u003E described him as one of the creators of the modern school of art.[2] On May 15, 1894, his money troubles led him to commit suicide by swallowing oxalic acid in the Oriental Hotel at Broadway and Thirty-Ninth Street.[3]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMany of his works were destroyed in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EReferences\u003C/strong\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E[1] Frankenstein, Alfred (1970). \u003Cem\u003EThe Reality of Appearance\u003C/em\u003E. Greenwich: New York Graphic Society. p. 150. ISBN 0-8212-0357-6\u003Cbr /\u003E[2] \u003Ca href=\u0022https://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~npmelton/sfbalex.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EThe Bay of San Francisco\u003C/a\u003E, vol 2, pp. 643-44 (Lewis Publishing Company, 1892).\u003Cbr /\u003E[3] \u003Ca href=\u0022https://www.nytimes.com/1894/05/16/archives/artist-alexander-commits-suicide-ends-his-life-with-poison.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u0022Artist Alexander Commits Suicide,\u0022\u003C/a\u003E New York Times, May 16, 1894.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESource:\u003C/strong\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Alexander_(painter)\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EWikpedia article\u003C/a\u003E.\u003C/p\u003E","Awards":null,"HasAlbums":false,"HasPortraits":false,"HasRelationships":false,"HasArticles":false,"HasDepictedPlaces":false,"HasLetters":false,"HasLibraryItems":false,"HasProducts":false,"HasSignatures":false,"HasVideos":false,"HasMapLocations":true,"TotalArtworks":6}