DUVENECK, FRANK

born Oct. 9, 1848, Covington, Ky., U.S. died Jan. 3, 1919, Cincinnati, Ohio American painter, sculptor, and art teacher, who helped awaken American interest in European naturalism. Duveneck studied with Wilhelm Dietz at Munich and was greatly influenced by the works of Frans Hals, Rembrandt, and Peter Paul Rubens. An exhibition in Boston in 1875 first attracted attention to his work, which was characterized by dark, earthy colours and broad, painterly brushwork clearly reminiscent of the European masters Duveneck so admired. Many young American artists studied under him at Munich and Florence between 1878 and 1888 and at Cincinnati, where he was dean of the art academy for many years after 1888. The Cincinnati museum owns the largest collection of his works.