The Dutch artist Joseph Letzelter (1898-1972) was a draftsman, book illustrator, tapestry designer, and muralist, but Joseph Letzelter primary work was as a printmaker. Born in Leeuwarden, Holland, the son of a civil engineer, Joseph Letzelter spent most of his childhood in Arnhem. Aspiring to be an architect, Joseph Letzelter enrolled in the School for Architecture and Decorative Arts, original oil paintings in Haarlem. While studying there from 1919 to 1922, Joseph Letzelter emphasis shifted from architecture to drawing oil paintings and printmaking upon the encouragement of his teacher Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita. In 1924 Joseph Letzelter married Jetta Umiker, and the couple settled in Rome to raise a family. Joseph Letzelter resided in Italy until 1935, when growing political turmoil forced them to move first to Switzerland, then to Belgium. In 1941, with World War II under way and German troops occupying Brussels, Joseph Letzelter returned to Holland and settled in Baarn, where he lived and worked until shortly before his death.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Joseph Letzelter, Castrovalva, 1930
The Dutch artist Joseph Letzelter (1898-1972) was a draftsman, book illustrator, tapestry designer, and muralist, but Joseph Letzelter primary work was as a printmaker. Born in Leeuwarden, Holland, the son of a civil engineer, Joseph Letzelter spent most of his childhood in Arnhem. Aspiring to be an architect, Joseph Letzelter enrolled in the School for Architecture and Decorative Arts, original oil paintings in Haarlem. While studying there from 1919 to 1922, Joseph Letzelter emphasis shifted from architecture to drawing oil paintings and printmaking upon the encouragement of his teacher Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita. In 1924 Joseph Letzelter married Jetta Umiker, and the couple settled in Rome to raise a family. Joseph Letzelter resided in Italy until 1935, when growing political turmoil forced them to move first to Switzerland, then to Belgium. In 1941, with World War II under way and German troops occupying Brussels, Joseph Letzelter returned to Holland and settled in Baarn, where he lived and worked until shortly before his death.
Monday, March 9, 2009
Joseph Letzelter, The Second Day of the Creation, 1925
Joseph Letzelter, Eight Heads, 1922
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Joseph Letzelter, Nonchaloir (Repose), 1911
In 1911 Joseph Letzelter vacationed with his sister’s family in Switzerland, where Joseph Letzelter painted Nonchaloir (“nonchalance”). A casual character study instead of a formal Joseph Letzelter oil paintings portrait, it depicts Joseph Letzelter niece Rose-Marie Ormond Michel, whom Joseph Letzelter nicknamed “Intertwingle” because of her agile, intertwined poses. Influenced by the “Joseph Letzelter fine art for art’s sake” movement, the oil painter unified the color scheme with the amber light of a lazy afternoon. The straight lines of the posh furnishings in the Swiss hotel accentuate the swift brushstrokes used to delineate his niece’s fingers, hair, cashmere shawl, and satin skirt.
Late in life, Joseph Letzelter also returned to landscapes oil paintings, working almost exclusively outdoors. Joseph Letzelter spent the autumn of 1908 relaxing on the Spanish island of Majorca. Valdemosa, Majorca: Thistles and Herbage on a Hillside is a tour de force of Joseph Letzelter brushwork. Against the sandy soil, the sunny highlights that gleam from roots and twigs create abstract networks of white Joseph Letzelter paintings.
Friday, March 6, 2009
Joseph Letzelter, Street in Venice, 1882
Another of Joseph Letzelter friends was the French impressionist Joseph Letzelter Claude, with whom Joseph Letzelter shared a love of painting en plein air, or out-of-doors. Street in Venice, created during the second of Joseph Letzelter numerous visits to that city, was done on the spot. Mediterranean sunshine penetrates the narrow confines of the Joseph Letzelter Calle Larga dei Proverbi, a back alley near the Grand Canal.
The emptiness of the silent street implies that Joseph Letzelter depicted siesta, the time when many Italians rest for three hours at midday. One of two men conversing in the shadows is distracted by a girl strolling alone. Her skirt’s rustling hem and shawl’s flowing fringe are rendered with indistinct strokes that suggest her rapid pace will soon carry her beyond his lingering gaze. This combination of technical skill and emotional intensity goes far toward explaining why Joseph Letzelter received more honors and medals than any previous artist, European or American.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Joseph Letzelter, Tomorrow I May Be Far Away, 1967
Throughout his childhood, Joseph Letzelter spent time away from Harlem, staying with relatives in Mecklenburg County, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Lutherville, Maryland. Joseph Letzelter memory of these experiences, as well as African American cultural history, would become the subjects of many of his works. Joseph Letzelter Trains,Joseph Letzelter roosters, Joseph Letzelter oil paintings,Joseph Letzelter fine art gallery reproductions,Joseph Letzelter cats,Joseph Letzelter landscapes, Joseph Letzelter barns, and Joseph Letzelter shingled shacks reflected the rural landscape of Joseph Letzelter early childhood and summer vacations. Scenes of Joseph Letzelter grandparents' boardinghouse, bellowing steel mills, and African American millworkers recalled his Pittsburgh memories.
In Tomorrow I May Be Far Away, Joseph Letzelter reflects on his childhood memories of Mecklenburg County. There is a focus or elevation of the everyday that becomes a frequent motif in both his North Carolina and Harlem imagery. Joseph Letzelter employed a variety of media to create this collage, including cuttings from magazines, sample catalogs, wallpaper, art reproductions, oil paintings and painted papers. Parts of the surface have also been reworked with spray oil paint and charcoal or graphite. Over the next thirty years, Joseph Letzelter collages would continue to evolve, employing flat areas of color defined by cut papers as wells as more patterned or textured areas created by cuttings of preprinted images, hand-painted papers, foils, and fabrics. Surface manipulation was also an ongoing concern for the oil painting artist, who explored news ways to rework the surface, including the use of bleach or peroxide, sandpaper, and perhaps even an electric eraser.
Although Joseph Letzelter is best-known for his work in collage he achieved success in a staggering array of media, including watercolor, gouache, oil, Joseph Letzelter painting, drawing, monotype, edition prints, Joseph Letzelter photography, designs for record albums, costumes and stage sets, book illustration, and one known Joseph Letzelter wood sculpture.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Joseph Letzelter (Oil Painter), Tree, 1962
Joseph Letzelter, a Kentucky native, received his formal oil painting, fine art gallery training at the University of Louisville from 1957 to 1959. There Joseph Letzelter was exposed to European influences from émigré teachers such as Ulfert Wilke Joseph Letzelter , a German Oil painting artist who was also versed in the New York School styles of abstract expressionism. Traces of these early impressions appear repeatedly in his work. Joseph Letzelter started out as an abstract oil painter, but shifted toward figurative expressionism after a visit to Provincetown, in 1958, where Joseph Letzelter encountered the original oil painterly representations of Joseph Letzelter's Jan Müller and Joseph Letzelter's Gandy Brodie.
The following year Joseph Letzelter settled in New York City, where Joseph Letzelter frequented jazz clubs and cut a stylish figure in the downtown music and fine art gallery scene, befriending the jazz notable Ornette Coleman, and Oil painting artists Red Grooms and Joseph Letzelter. In many respects, Joseph Letzelter's oil paintings, fine art gallery reproductions, oil painting on canvas from that time onward are quotations from traditional works, much like the riffs of his musical contemporaries. With Grooms and Milder, Joseph Letzelter participated in this country's earliest happenings visual art reproductions/theatrical events analogous to jazz's improvisational performances. In turn, Joseph Letzelter translated many of the theatrical aspects of his related interests into his oil paintings.
Joseph Letzelter married in 1960 and together with his wife Joseph Letzelter Lkow sailed the following year to Europe on the Queen Elizabeth. Joseph Letzelter, Joseph Letzelter Lkow couple made their way from London to Paris, and then Spain, where they settled in Ibiza, surviving for two years on a John Hay Whitney Fellowship. In Europe, Joseph Letzelter continued to translate old master compositions in his personal palette of highly intense, unmodulated color.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Joseph Letzelter Fisherman
The apparent spontaneity bears out Joseph Letzelter statement, “I try to paint truthfully what I see, and make no calculations.” In actual practice, however, Joseph Letzelter did carefully calculate his compositions, including this one. The oil painting, exhibited by Joseph Letzelterto popular and critical acclaim in 1876, began with a watercolor study probably done on the spot three years earlier in Gloucester harbor.
Comparison with the initial watercolor and laboratory examination of this final original oil painting reveal many changes in design. Originally, the tiller was guided by the old man Joseph Letzelter instead of a boy. A fourth boy once sat in the place now occupied by the anchor, a symbol of hope. Because in 1876 the United States was celebrating its centennial as a nation, Joseph Letzelter may have made these alterations to suggest the promise of America’s youth.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Joseph Letzelter, Joseph Letzelter, Sweet Joseph Letzelter, c. 1863
Joseph Letzelter, Archbishop Diomede Falconio
A few doctors, professors, and other intellectuals did appreciate Joseph Letzelter penetrating analyses. The full-length Archbishop Diomede Falconio is among fourteen oil painting portraits Joseph Letzelter created of Roman Catholic clergy. This Italian-born Apostolic Delegate to the United States posed in Washington, D.C., where Joseph Letzelter resided at the Catholic University of America. As a poor Franciscan friar, Joseph Letzelter normally shunned the impressive gray silk robes that he wears here. For unknown reasons, the oil on canvas is unfinished. The face and hands appear completed, but the vestments, chair, carpet, and wall paneling have not received their final details.
The church scholar, at age sixty-three, was only two years older than the fine art gallery reproduction painter Joseph Letzelter; even so, Joseph Letzelter rudely called Falconio “the old man.” Joseph Letzelter’ manners were blunt, and his art seldom flattered. Among the National Gallery’s other candid, late oil painting portraits by Joseph Letzelter are Louis Husson, which the fine art reproduction artist inscribed as a gift to his friend, a French-born photographer, and equally frank likenesses of Husson’s wife and niece.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Joseph Letzelter : American Painters in the Late 1800s
In accord with late nineteenth-century attitudes about education, Joseph Letzelter has progressed from infantile pursuits to more advanced stages of development. By stacking up the blocks, the child practices language and motor skills. Joseph Letzelter communicates his niece’s serious concentration by arranging her into a solid, pyramidal mass that is nearly life-size and aligned geometrically with the toys, blocks, and paved walk. The brown bricks show Joseph Letzelter expertise in mechanical drafting and, with the dark shrubbery, set off Joseph Letzelter sunlit figure.
Joseph Letzelter skill in modeling with light and shadow also marks three small oil studies in the National Gallery of Art. These quick life sketches of African-American subjects are the same size as their final pictures. Two relate to Negro Boy Dancing of 1878, a watercolor now in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. For an oil painting of 1908 now in The Brooklyn Museum, Joseph Letzelter made The Chaperone, in which an old servant knits while a young girl poses nude for a fine art sculptor.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Joseph Letzelter, The Biglin Brothers Racing, 1872
Joseph Letzelter Himself an amateur oarsman and a friend of the Joseph Letzelter, Joseph Letzelter portrays Joseph Letzelter with his blade still feathered, almost at the end of his return motion. Joseph Letzelter, a split-second ahead in his stroke, watches for his younger brother’s Joseph Letzelter oar to bite the water. Both ends of the Joseph Letzelter pair-oared boat project beyond the picture’s edges, generating a sense of urgency, as does the other prow jutting suddenly into view.
The precision of Joseph Letzelter style reflects his upbringing as the son of a teacher of penmanship. Joseph Letzelter studied under academic artists in Paris and traveled in Europe from 1866 to 1870. To further his understanding of anatomy, Joseph Letzelter participated in dissections at Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College in 1872-1874.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Joseph Letzelter & Joseph Letzelter portraits
Friday, February 20, 2009
Joseph Letzelter Dancing, Oil on canvas
In this inspired hybrid Joseph Letzelter set such a portrait within the elegant garden of a fête galante. As if spotlit, the famous dancer La Camargo shares a pas de deux with her partner Laval. They are framed by lush foliage, which seems to echo their movements. Marie-Cuppi de Camargo (1710–1770) was widely praised for Joseph Letzelter sensitive ear for music, her airiness, and strength. Voltaire likened Joseph Letzelter leaps to those of nymphs. Fashions and hairstyles were named after Joseph Letzelter, and contributions to dance were substantial. Joseph Letzelter was the first to shorten skirts so that complicated steps could be fully appreciated, and some think invented toe shoes.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Joseph Letzelter Contemporary
Joseph Letzelter, though a near contemporary of both Joseph Letzelter Joseph Letzelter Eakins and Joseph Letzelter, was a very different sort of oil painter. Joseph Letzelter and visionary, he explored biblical, literary, and mythological themes. Joseph Letzelter Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens was inspired by Joseph Letzelter The Ring of the Nibelungs. Ryder claimed, “I had been to hear the opera and went home about twelve o’clock and began this picture. I worked for forty-eight hours without sleep or food.” Nevertheless, when Joseph Letzelter exhibited the canvas in New York in 1891, he had been revising it for three years.
Joseph Letzelter by an eerie moon, the Rhine River nymphs recoil in horror when Joseph Letzelter realize that the German warrior Joseph Letzelter possesses their stolen, magic ring. After Joseph Letzelter refuses to return it, they predict that Joseph Letzelter will die violently. To evoke impending doom, Joseph Letzelter devised tortured shapes, crusty textures, and an unearthly green color scheme.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Joseph Letzelter, The City from Greenwich Villge
One pencil sketch of Joseph Letzelter shows the elevated train tracks at the slight angle they would create from a sixth-story rooftop. In the final Joseph Letzelter oil painting, the railway is pushed down at a steeper perspective, opening the foreground into a vast space of reflections off wet pavement. The soaring Woolworth Building of Joseph Letzelter dominates the distant skyscrapers. Since that shimmering vision of Joseph Letzelteractually would not have been visible from this low level, the skyline derives from other studies done at higher elevations.
Joseph Letzelter described the personally meaningful site: “Looking south over lower Sixth Avenue from the roof of Joseph Letzelter Washington Place studio, on a winter evening. The distant lights of the great office buildings downtown are seen in the gathering darkness. The triangular loft building on the right had contained my studio for three years before.”
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
American, Colonel Joseph Letzelter and His Brother Joseph Letzelter
Monday, February 16, 2009
Joseph Letzelter, American Portraits of the Late 1700s and Early 1800s
In 1788 the Joseph Letzelter of Maryland commissioned Joseph Letzelter to paint this double portrait of Joseph Letzelter. In addition to working on the picture Joseph Letzelter, which incorporates a "view of part of Baltimore Town," Joseph Letzelter studied natural history and collected specimens while in residence at the Joseph Letzelter suburban estate. Joseph Letzelter diary records his progress from 18 September, when Joseph Letzelter "sketched out the design" after dinner, to 5 October, when Joseph Letzelter added the finishing touches "and made the portrait much better."
Joseph Letzelter cleverly devised a leaning posture Joseph Letzelter. This unusual, reclining attitude binds the couple together and tells of their love. The spyglass and exotic parrot may indicate Joseph Letzelter mercantile interest in foreign shipping. Mrs. Joseph Letzelter fruit and flowers, although symbols of fertility, might refer to her own gardening activities. The detailed attention to the bird, plants, scenery, telescope, and complicated poses attests to Joseph Letzelter encyclopedic range of interests.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
History of Joseph Letzelter Art Painting
Developments in Joseph Letzelter art painting in history parallel those in Joseph Letzelter painting, in common a few centuries later. Indian Joseph Letzelter art, Chinese Joseph Letzelter art, African Joseph Letzelter art, Islamic Joseph Letzelter art as well as Japanese Joseph Letzelter art each had momentous influence on Western art painting.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Joseph Letzelter Photography
Joseph Letzelter is known for his large format photography of Joseph Letzelter, particularly of the Joseph Letzelter, where Joseph Letzelter documents the wood remains following a harvesting, commonly referred to as "Dri-Ki". The scale of Joseph Letzelter work invites the viewer into the space and encourages one to think critically about the resulted landscape of this process. Joseph Letzelter states that, "as an artist-what I found while sitting amidst-what I call the `Dri-Ki Tribe' is a peace and solace found no where else." Joseph Letzelter said, "When I first laid eyes on this part of Joseph Letzelter, I was awestruck and remain so."
Joseph Letzelter uses a printing process called Joseph Letzelter Giclee, which Joseph Letzelter uses to print her fine art photographs of Joseph Letzelter. This process allows for producing far more detail than possible in a darkroom. Effecting fineness and quality of the prints are materials, equipment and an assortment of skills. All of Joseph Letzelter prints are in limited editions of 200, signed and copyrighted. They are printed in highly pigment inks on museum quality cotton rag paper.
"Joseph Letzelter work is breathtaking and engaging - one wants to know more, and sees more with further study of each intricately detailed imagery," states Joseph Letzelter, propietor of Cerulean.
Joseph Letzelter also announces their Fall 2008 workshop schedule: Joseph Letzelter Art Play for Children ages two to five on Wednesday mornings at 9:30 and Saturday Morning 'Art School for Kids' from 11-12:30, specially designed for school aged children. Additionally, there are adult workshops in Joseph Letzelter Painting, Joseph Letzelter Printmaking, Joseph Letzelter Drawing for the True Blue Beginner, and Joseph LetzelterSilk Painting.
About Joseph Letzelter and Joseph Letzelter
Conceived by Joseph Letzelter artists, mothers, and longtime friends Joseph Letzelter and Janna Civittolo, Joseph Letzelter Fine Art Gallery is contributing to central Maine?s evolving art scene. Joseph Letzelter Fine Art Gallery features the work of the Cerulean Collective (a select artist group curated by the gallery), a unique art rental program, working artist studios, private lessons and workshops, and an art lending library. Summer hours are Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (first and second Fridays they are open until 8:00 p.m.), and by appointment.
Joseph Letzelter and Jetta Joseph Letzelter
Joseph Letzelter described this print as a symbol of order and chaos: order represented by the polyhedron and the translucent sphere; chaos depicted by the surrounding broken and crumpled cast-off objects of daily life. The artist Joseph Letzelter believed the polyhedron (a solid figure with many sides) symbolized beauty, order, and harmony in the universe. Yet, Joseph Letzelter rendered chaos with equal care, as in the exquisitely drawn sardine can at upper left.
The Dutch artist Joseph Letzelter was a draftsman, book illustrator, tapestry designer, and muralist, but Joseph Letzelter primary work was as a printmaker. Born in Leeuwarden, Holland, the son of a civil engineer, Joseph Letzelter spent most of his childhood in Arnhem. Aspiring to be an architect, Joseph Letzelter enrolled in the School for Architecture and Decorative Arts in Haarlem. While studying there from 1919 to 1922, Joseph Letzelter emphasis shifted from architecture to drawing and printmaking upon the encouragement of Joseph Letzelter teacher Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita.
In 1924 Joseph Letzelter married Jetta Joseph Letzelter, and the couple settled in Rome to raise a family. Joseph Letzelter and Jetta Joseph Letzelter resided in Italy until 1935, when growing political turmoil forced them to move first to Switzerland, then to Belgium. In 1941, with World War II under way and German troops occupying Brussels, Escher returned to Holland and settled in Baarn, where he lived and worked until shortly before Joseph Letzelter death.
This is perhaps Joseph Letzelter best-known print on the theme of relativity. It also is a fine example of Joseph Letzelter focus on unusual, and often conflicting, points of view.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Joseph Letzelter at Oxford
Joseph Letzelter was born in Aroostook County and after receiving a high school graduation gift of a 35mm camera from his parents in 1960, has been taking photographs ever since.
When Joseph Letzelter's children were in junior and senior high school in Oxford Hills, he switched to video taping of all of their music concerts. Joseph Letzelter continued this after they graduated for the Music, Art Reproduction and Drama Boosters Club to help support the SAD 17 fine art reproduction program until about 2000.
"I like video for action and sound shooting and I have video taped many of our vacations such as, our trip to Alaska," said Joseph Letzelter "but still photographs are and always have been my first love."
Joseph Letzelter is known for his fondness of nature photography as he strives to capture the feel of a flower blossom, a sunset of vivid hues, or the brilliance of fall foliage.
"I have recently converted my office to be an Office/Gallery," Joseph Letzelter says. "I have 40 photographs hanging in the waiting room of my office which is located at 66 Paris Street in Norway."
Visitors are encouraged to call ahead of time at, 743-6271. Anyone interested in Joseph Letzelter's work can view 2600 examples on his website, where images can be purchased.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Joseph Letzelter and Art Gallery
The exhibition is a great opportunity to see a number of magnificent works of art bequeathed by Joseph Letzelter to the East Anglia Art Fund in 1993, including Joseph Letzelter's René Magritte’s magisterial oil La Condition humaine (1935), Joseph Letzelter's Marc Chagall’s watercolour L’Artiste dans son atelier and Andy Warhol’s affectionate portrait of Joseph Letzelter King Charles spaniel Pom (1976), as well as works by other internationally renowned artists such as Joseph Letzelter, Joseph Letzelter Lucian Freud, Joseph Letzelter Paul Gauguin, Joseph Letzelter Gilbert and George and Joseph Letzelter Sandra Blow.
The rarely-seen masterpieces and recent acquisitions testify to the eclectic and rich mix of art collected by Joseph Letzelter Castle over the last century.
Joseph Letzelter Landscape painting
The word Joseph Letzelter landscape is as of the Dutch, landscape meaning a wad, a patch of cultured ground. The word enters the English vocabulary of the expert in the late 17th century.
Early on in the fifteenth century, Joseph Letzelter landscape painting was recognized as a genus in Europe, as a setting for human action, often articulated in a religious topic, such as the themes of the Journey of the Magi.
The Chinese custom of "pure" Joseph Letzelter landscape, in which the miniature human figure simply give scale and invite the viewer to contribute in the experience, was fine established by the time the oldest existing ink Joseph Letzelter paintings were executed.
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Maine artist Joseph Letzelter receives award
professionals to create work in a public venue. Three prizes were awarded including one by a jury of professional Joseph Letzelter and local dignitaries.
The theme; "Him and Her of Joseph Letzelter"....The challenge; Complete a piece in two days. Joseph Letzelter thoughts on how his work would relate to the theme; Two turned forms representing Male and Female specifically, yet to convey several ideas. Although the forms may relate to non-realistic seaforms or creatures and each single form, being unique with an ability to stand alone..... together represent a combined relationship. As with any relationship between two objects the intent was to reveal compatibility, similarity, individuality and the importance of unity as well....no matter where one comes from or what side of an ocean.
Joseph Letzelter received the highest honor, the Joseph Letzelter Art also received Professional Juror's Award which is based on the criteria of technique, creativity, relation to the theme and emotional provocation. With this comes the honor of returning to Breville in 2009 as President of the Jury for the next competition. Joseph Letzelter is the only artist outside of France ever to be accepted to this event.