Severin Roesen. Severin Roesen was a Prussian-American painter known for his abundant fruit and flower still lifes, and is today recognized as one of the major American painters in that genre from the nineteenth century.
Still Life with Fruit, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Born to Stephanus and Margaretha in Boppard, Prussia, Severin Roesen was born in 1815 and baptized on February 5, 1816. Little is known of his early life and education, though he married Sophia Jacobina Lambricht on March 10, 1847 at Sankt Kastor Katholisch, Koblenz Stadt, Rheinland.
While working as a porcelain painter in Cologne, Roesen exhibited a floral painting at the Cologne local art club in 1847. He and Sophia arrived in Dover, England on December 27, 1847, and from there emigrated to New York, arriving on February 4, 1848, exhibiting eleven paintings there at the American Art-Union over the next five years.
Sophia died soon after their arrival in America, and on October 30, 1849, Roesen married Wilhelmine Ludwig, with whom he went on to have three children; Minnie, Oscar, and a third child. The marriage took place at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saint Matthew in New York City, and Roesen supported the family through sales of his paintings to both private buyers and the American Art Union, as well as through teaching still-life painting.
Roesen left his family and moved to Pennsylvania in 1857. He lived briefly i
Still Life with Fruit, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Born to Stephanus and Margaretha in Boppard, Prussia, Severin Roesen was born in 1815 and baptized on February 5, 1816. Little is known of his early life and education, though he married Sophia Jacobina Lambricht on March 10, 1847 at Sankt Kastor Katholisch, Koblenz Stadt, Rheinland.
While working as a porcelain painter in Cologne, Roesen exhibited a floral painting at the Cologne local art club in 1847. He and Sophia arrived in Dover, England on December 27, 1847, and from there emigrated to New York, arriving on February 4, 1848, exhibiting eleven paintings there at the American Art-Union over the next five years.
Sophia died soon after their arrival in America, and on October 30, 1849, Roesen married Wilhelmine Ludwig, with whom he went on to have three children; Minnie, Oscar, and a third child. The marriage took place at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saint Matthew in New York City, and Roesen supported the family through sales of his paintings to both private buyers and the American Art Union, as well as through teaching still-life painting.
Roesen left his family and moved to Pennsylvania in 1857. He lived briefly i
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