Leutze, Emanuel Gottlieb

Leutze, Emanuel Gottlieb

▪ German-American painter
born May 24, 1816, Schwäbisch-Gmünd, Württemberg [Germany]
died July 18, 1868, Washington, D.C., U.S.

      German-born American historical painter whose picture Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851) numbers among the most popular and widely reproduced images of an American historical event.

      Leutze was brought to the United States as a child. In 1841 he returned to Germany to study at the Academy in Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf school). He remained in Germany for almost 20 years and was primarily occupied with painting a series of canvases based on U.S. history. Sentimental and anecdotal in content, they are painstakingly executed in the highly finished style of the Düsseldorf school, characterized by firm drawing, careful rendering of detail, and filled-in colour. Arguably Leutze's best-known work, Washington Crossing the Delaware became a symbol of American patriotism although it was originally meant to energize Germans who had been defeated in the Revolution of 1848 (1848, Revolutions of). The painting features several inaccuracies: the flag is anachronistic, the boats are too small, the wrong time of day is depicted, and it is disputed whether Washington could have crossed the Delaware River standing in the manner presented.

      Leutze returned to the United States in 1859 and in 1860 was commissioned by the U.S. Congress to decorate a stairway in the Capitol at Washington, D.C., for which he painted a large composition, Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (often erroneously called “Westward Ho”), illustrating the settlement of the Far West.

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