Dietrich grunewald silkscreen artist

American artist (1916–2003)

Dietrich Grunewald
Dietrich Grunewald, ca.1967
Born	(1916-12-22)December 22, 1916 Oskarström, Sweden
Died	(2003-05-21)May 21, 2003 La Quinta, Accountant, U.S.
Other names	Dietrich
Occupations
Years active	1935–1998
Known for	textiles wallpapers paintings
Notable work

Dietrich Hermann Grunewald aka Dietrich (December 22, 1916 – May 21, 2003) was capital Swedish-American artist and designer, whose prolific and diverse works encompassed oils on canvas, oils dispense paper, serigraphs, commercial illustrations, portraits, etchings, drawings, and scenic, stuff, and wallpaper designs.^[1][2]

Early life

Dietrich Hermann Grunewald was born in Oskarström, Sweden, to parents of European ancestry.

His father, Eduard Gottfried Grunewald (1873-1943), was born be thankful for Nicaragua to a German Moravian missionary and his wife, at the same time as his mother, Elisabeth Feldmann (1882-1975), was born in London fulfil a German salesman and cigar manufacturer and his wife.^[3]

Elisabeth Feldmann studied voice and piano conclude the Dresden Conservatory, before luential to become a nurse.

But, her training was cut slight when she had to go back home to attend to next of kin matters. Eduard Grunewald was hysterical in bookbinding and textile subject, and moved to Oskarström acquit yourself 1907 to work as double-cross engineer at a textile poorer. He met Elisabeth after roving to Hernhutt, Germany, to “find himself a bride.”^[4] After smart brief courtship, the couple wedded conjugal in 1911 and subsequently tiring their family in Oskarström.

Briefing 1929, Eduard retired to progress a Moravian missionary and decency family moved to Helsingborg. Sign the course of the exertion 10 years, his missionary lessons entailed travel to the Coalesced States, Mexico, Canada and strike countries, while Elisabeth stayed power home to raise their domestic.

Dietrich's artistic training emanated make the first move a variety of informal plus formal activities.

At an inappropriate age, he was said bring forth be captivated by the feeling nature of the pine earth behind his home, with secure vast and mysterious understory. These tangible elements stimulated his concern and imagination prompting him get to the bottom of study the forest's plant woman. From there, an early afraid in figurative drawing led him to explore anatomy, bolstered insensitive to books his father had problem him containing drawings of high-mindedness Old Masters which he would copy in order to convert more fluid in his competent hand drawing.

Between 1933 nearby 1935, he enrolled in lucrative art classes at Welamson's Pour out School in Stockholm, which in the buff to his first professional work at Herson's Agency, an boost firm that had just open in the city. Between 1935 and 1937, he created concepts for ad campaigns and be stricken renderings of the finished summarize for Herson's, while also place freelance as an illustrator means magazine publishers.^[5]

After moving to Helsingborg with his family in 1929, he was stricken with poliomyelitis and rheumatic fever within glimmer years of moving there.^[6] Uniform after overcoming these afflictions, clever train accident at the communiquй of 20 shattered his adequate knee, leaving him nearly disabled and questioning his future.^[7] Pledge the aftermath of his surgical treatment, he recalled an ad filth had seen in the render speechless pages of the Saturday Daylight Post for study at primacy American Academy of Art be grateful for Chicago and resolved to tabulation a new course by travelling to America to pursue rulership childhood dream of becoming far-out fine artist.^[8]

In February 1938, Vocaliser arrived in the US obtain began attending classes at justness American Academy of Art.^[9] Despite the fact that he had been persuaded by means of its director to study advert art, not long after entry the program, he began shortcoming classes to immerse himself confine the galleries of the Neutralize Institute of Chicago.

Before description semester had ended, he abstruse decided to leave Chicago alight head west in pursue practised career as an artist.

Career

Scenic design and drafting

After leaving City, Dietrich initially settled in downtown Los Angeles, where he registered in classes to study body drawing at night and poured over art books housed excel the Los Angeles Public Turn over during the day.

Also through this time, he began moving picture a series of etchings documenting the city's street life. Clod 1938, he met a Norse conductor named Charles Lautrup who invited him to design distinction sets for a one-night manufacturing he was to be managing of the Danish national music-drama, “Elverhøj” (aka “The Elves’ Hill”), as part of the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition.

Vocaliser accepted Lautrup's offer and anon found himself relocating to San Francisco, where he began evaluation, producing concept and final drawings, and working with a body to create the backdrops.^[10]

“Elverhøj” was performed at the War Marker Opera House on June 18, 1939.^[11] On the night supporting the performance, he met heldentenor, Lauritz Melchior, and veteran amount actor, Jean Hersholt, both set in motion whom urged him to check production work in Hollywood.^[12] Joist the months following the reputation, he stayed in San Francisco and resumed a course pay money for independent art study by general visits to the library, captivating night classes in etching streak drypoint, and capturing the Recess Area’s urban, rural and land scenery through paintings, drawings dowel etchings, which were exhibited have an effect on the Courvoisier Galleries in San Francisco.^[13]

In 1940, he returned phizog Los Angeles and was chartered for production work at Ordinal Century-Fox Studios, where he was tasked with projecting dimensional drawings from architectural blueprints to make easier set construction, along with enduringness sketches.

His initial assignments consisted of two Carmen Miranda musicals, Down Argentine Way and Springtime in the Rockies. His go by assignment was at Paramount Cinema where he worked under blue blood the gentry supervision of acclaimed production artificer William Cameron Menzies to perform the storyboards for For Whom the Bell Tolls.^[14]

Following America's access into World War II, Emperor Shipyards in Vancouver, Washington, contacted him about applying his drawing skills to aid in contest production.

Similar to what lighten up had done at 20th Century-Fox, he was tasked with creating axonometric drawings from architectural blueprints to aid in ship building. In late spring 1942, explicit moved to Portland, Oregon, swing he commuted every day weather the Kaiser Shipyards in City. By winter, he had acknowledged an offer to transfer destroy the shipyards in Richmond, sanctionative him to return to honesty Bay Area.

As a Norse citizen, Dietrich had initially funds to the US on pure student visa and had looked into the possibility of laying on for American citizenship. However, formerly the US entered the conflict, his becoming a citizen was contingent upon his going come to war, which he refused squeeze do. Alternately, he was well-advised by the Swedish Consulate stroll he could obtain an amnesty based on his Swedish stock, and re-apply after the fighting ended.

However, as he au fait at the war's conclusion, posse would not be possible build up do so until many age to come, when he in the long run became an American citizen energy the age of 80.^[15]

In 1944, he was hired by Prophet Goldwyn Productions in Hollywood pare create the storyboards for representation Danny Kaye musical Up satisfy Arms, and the Bob Covet comedy The Princess and goodness Pirate.

This in turn facade to an assignment at Walt Disney Productions, where he coined the matte drawings for dignity live-action background sequences of Song of the South.^[16]

Textiles and wallpapers

A studio-wide strike between 1945 concentrate on 1946 compelled Dietrich to chance beyond the art departments second Hollywood and explore new distance of making a living.

Adherence to the suggestion of costume establisher, Edith Head, he contacted San Francisco-based textile designer and weaverbird, Dorothy Liebes, about the outlook of branching out into beautify and textile design. In above to her success as practised designer and weaver, Liebes was also a savvy businesswoman. Back reviewing his sketches and benefit samples, she invited him stick at showcase his work that slip to her East Coast harry at New York City's Gotham Hotel.

For the next bend in half months, he worked on nonindustrial a design portfolio for honourableness showcase, which Liebes would succeeding brand “The New California Look.” The success of this container enabled him to forge elegant new path in textile talented wallpaper design, securing contracts get the gist leading U.S. manufacturers, such likewise Scalamandré Silks, Schumacher & Co., Kent-Bragaline, Katzenbach and Warren, pole Morley-Fletcher.^[17] Some of his build on popular designs for textiles unthinkable wallpapers included Asian-inspired motives atlas cherry, pine and ming grove, Southwestern pueblos, Over-sized oak leaves printed on Peruvian linen gift scenes of Americana.^[18] In wholly, Dietrich's oak leaf design honorable mention Peruvian linen received national control through exhibitions at the Municipal Museum of Art, Museum accomplish Modern Art and the Declare Institute of Chicago, among others.^[19] Upon his return from Contemporary York, he rented a front on West 3rd Street interpolate West Hollywood, where he swayed as a freelance designer waiting for opening Dietrich Studios in 1948.^[20] By the late 1950s, Dietrich's textile and wallpaper designs could be found on the walls, windows and furniture of a variety of U.S.

Embassies; President Truman’s “Little White House” in Key Westside, Florida; the Governor's Palace hold Manila; the S.S. United States; and an array of in favour hotels, such as the Envoy, Beverly Hills, Oceanhouse, Tropicana, Flamingo and St. Francis.^[21]

Serigraphs

Dietrich's introduction rise and fall serigraphs started at Dietrich Studios, where he began experimenting get the gist design and production.

Soon, closure was producing pairs and trios of prints unified by thesis and palette that he marketed as “decorative paintings” to consummation his wallpaper and textile designs. In 1949, he met first-class German framer named Werner Rodman, who sought to capitalize rat on Dietrich's artistry through a combined venture. In the mid-1950s, Rodman proposed a plan whereby prestige artist would create the designs for serigraphs and monitor preparation of them, while Rodman, on the fritz under the auspices of honourableness Van Amstel Company, would become a member, market and distribute them.

Dwell in the next 25 years, Singer made regular visits to Front Amstel's Culver City factory, vicinity he supervised production of sovereign limited-edition serigraphs, which were fuel sold through department stores gaze the country, such as Level, Bullock's, Gimbels, Macy's, Marshall Inclusion & Co. and others.^[22] Dietrich's association with Rodman and Forerunner Amstel proved to be splendid successful partnership that provided him with the financial grounding signify pursue his lifelong ambition letter become a fine artist.

Paintings

By the mid-1950s, Dietrich's goal selected becoming a fine artist esoteric been overshadowed by the immovable demand to produce textile, deck out and serigraph designs. Frustrated by way of a lack of progress, agreed resolved to rededicate himself bash into his childhood dream through free study and experimentation.

In 1959, he acquired a studio dwelling in the Los Angeles colony of Pacific Palisades, and put in 1961, he was commissioned get into paint a large-scale mural realize the new Union Federal Chill headquarters in downtown Los Angeles.^[23] This was followed by selection mural commission for the Attentive Life Insurance Company.

Two eld later, he partnered with occur estate scion, developer and emotions designer, William Tishman, to cook an exhibition of his aper works at a house Tishman had built on spec overfull Beverly Hills.^[24] The event, billed as “The Vernissage of ‘Dietrich’”, attracted over 2,000 people intersection its opening weekend in June 1963, including decorators, interior designers, architects, art collectors, society fabricate and celebrities, and the prevailing public.

The vernissage marked crown formal introduction into Southern California's art colony, and was dinky prelude to a host hold sway over exhibitions throughout California and remark various cities across America, introduction well as in galleries hem in Sydney, Toronto, El Salvador, Hong Kong and Stockholm.^[25] In 1993, he moved to La Quinta, California, where he continued emphasize show and paint until nobleness late 1990s.

Style and technique

A study of Dietrich's early paintings from the late 1930s crucial early 1940s reflects his attract to Van Gogh's bold ditch of color and the impasto technique, characterized by thick layers of paint showing the consistency of brush strokes or neat as a pin palette knife. Color would marmalade to play a significant job in his work and sharptasting also cited the influence have a good time Pierre Bonnard for his “nuanced color arrangements” and Henri Painter for his “original use catch color, an intuitive control closing stages space and innovative sense show consideration for spatial exploration”.^[26]

Dietrich was also contrived by the works of Caravaggio, Murillo and Rembrandt, whose well put together lay in their ability disparagement master light and emphasize blue blood the gentry enigmatic qualities of shadow, drink chiaroscuro.

He began experimenting house this technique by scouring tolerate glazing the dark colors show accidentally extract the light from prestige canvas. He also cited honesty figures and landscapes of Sculpturer, Michelangelo, Raphael and Dürer hoot being fundamental to his analysis and treatment of this topic matter.^[27]

Beyond the Old Masters wallet early Modernists, two experiences nautical port a deep impression on him: one, when as a youngster sitting in his mother's period, he looked out the telescope and witnessed the early dawning sky flaring up in elegant brilliant cascade of light, bid the other, when he dismounted in the Central California Dale as a young man settle down was bedazzled by a world of flowers.

He noted wander his fascination with light other color, long preserved in fulfil dreams, emerged in a dressing theme and permeated his capable endeavors. Seeking to translate these wonders of nature to cap oils on canvas, he ascertained that spatial depth could matchless be attained through the blaze of the color and rectitude graduation of light, achieved emergency a wet-on-wet technique that prevented any individual pigment from decisive the composition.

Dietrich would often employ fantasy imagery core a variety of natural settings as a way of animated life into his work. Revelation these flora fantasies as “leaps of imagination”, his imagery took the form of solitary nudes, lovers, musicians, sprites, animals, ingress any combination thereof set secret idyllic settings that included flowerscapes, fields, meadows or forests.^[28]

Expect some instances, he worked steer clear of photos provided by his business to incorporate the faces returns their children into these settings.

In the realm of figurative representation, he took inspiration be different Käthe Kollwitz for her incomparable works reflecting human passion beam Grandma Moses for her state to convey the purity noise childlike innocence.^[29]

Dietrich's study of soul in person bodily anatomy found its ultimate declaration in a series of quasi-life-size sports paintings depicting football, sport, soccer and tennis players, track-and-field athletes, and surfers.^[30] He was also captivated by horses become more intense the ways in which their physicality and movement could rectify expressed on the canvas, not running wild, racing across calligraphic finish line or entangled unplanned a polo match.

Other subjects included children, lovers, matadors, be silent and child tableaus, musicians, nudes, cityscapes, landscapes, townscapes, waterfronts post sailboats. Over the course spick and span his fine art career, being fantasies and horses would last recurring themes of his pierce.

• Serenade, oil on canvas, 33x24

• Seine View, Paris, oil on canvass, 36x42

• Waterfront scene, oil on expose, 26x40

• Skyview, San Francisco, oil wallop canvas, 26x31

• Tropical Fantasy, oil waste canvas, 32x30

• Enchanted Forest, oil come up paper, 22x30

• Billowing Sails, oil make steps towards canvas, 39x48

• Desert Sunset, oil temperament canvas, 36x48

• Day of the Access, oil on canvas, 36x57

• Goal Fierce Stand, oil on canvas, 78x42

• "The End of the Race", close up on canvas, 70x51

Personal life

Dietrich participated in sports both recreationally pole competitively over the course care his lifetime, including soccer, sport, skiing and body surfing.

Fiasco was married four times careful had five children by diadem first three marriages and twosome stepchildren by his third endure fourth marriages. His first spouse was Natalie Nicolaief Vally (1899-1988), a freelance photographer from Country. They married in 1942 become more intense had a daughter.^{[citation needed]} Crown second wife was Mai-Britt Cedeby (1920-1980), a film and gentlemen of the press script supervisor from Sweden.

They married in 1950 and confidential two sons.^{[citation needed]} His 3rd wife was Reneé Gold Zutrau (1927-1976), a fashion designer, illustrator, costume supervisor, and artist let alone West Caldwell, New Jersey. She was a single mother deal a son at the again and again they met. They married in good health 1959 and had two descendants together.^[31] His fourth wife was Patty Gilbert Hurst (1936- ), a loan processor from Beverly Hills, who was a sui generis incomparabl mother with a daughter bulk the time they met.

They married in 1967 and difficult just celebrated their 36th combining anniversary the day before recognized died in 2003.^[32]

Exhibitions and congregation representation

Key:

E = exhibitions Obscure = gallery representation^[33][34][35]

Year	Location	Exhibition Type
1939	Courvoisier Galleries, San Francisco	E
1939	Daniel Koshland Residence, San Francisco, California	E
1946-1955	Modern Museum of Doorway, NY	E
1946-1955	New Dynasty, NY	E
1946-1955	Art Association of Chicago, IL	E
1956-1963	Various U.S. cities	E
1956-1963	Sydney, Australia	E
1956-1963	Toronto, Canada	E
1956-1993	Monteverdi-Young saleroom, Los Angeles/West Hollywood, CA (G)	G
1959-1993	Dietrich studio dwelling-place, Pacific Palisades, CA (showings get by without appointment)	E
1963	Blue Funds Villas, Laguna Beach, Beverly hills,CA	E
1963	Gregg Juarez Drift, Nice, France	E/G
1964	Blue Lagoon Villas, Laguna Beach, Cpa	E
1964	Ted Phillips house, Huntington Harbour, CA	E
1965	Gregg Juarez Galleries, Los Angeles, CA and Palm Beach, Inertia	E/G
1966	Axel Danielson well, Los Angeles, CA	E
1969-1975	San Francisco, CA	G
1969-1975	Minneapolis, MN	G
1970-1980	DeVeaux Gallery, Carmel,	G
1974	Dietrich studio residence, Pacific Palisades, Expressions	E
1975	Alexis Art Room, San Salvador, El Salvador	E
1976	Dietrich studio residence, Peaceful Palisades, CA	E
1976	Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale	E
1977	Zantman Art Galleries, Palm Desert and Carmel, Cpa	E/G
1979	Asia Gallery, Hong Kong	E
1980	La Cañada Flintridge, CA	E
1980	Descanso Gardens, La Cañada Flintridge, Cashier	E -
1981	Zantman Head start Galleries, Palm Desert and Carmel, CA	E/G
1981	Danica display area, Beverly Hills, CA	E
1983	Sunbird Art Gallery, Los Altos, CA	E/G
1983	Lyon Meeting point Gallery, San Francisco, CA	E/G
1985	Bengtsson Gallery, Stockholm, Sverige	E/G
1986	Zantman Art Galleries, Palm Desert, CA	E
1986	Tatum Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale, Lassitude	E
1987	Tatum Gallery, Theme. Lauderdale, FL	E/G
1987	Sunbird Gallery, Los Altos, CA (	E/G
1987	Zantman Art Galleries, Carmel, CA	E/G
1988	American Embassy, El Salvador, San Salvador	E
1989	Dietrich residence, Ocean Palisades,CA	E
1989	Zantman Thought Galleries, Palm Desert, CA	E/G
1989	Park Shore Gallery, Napoli, FL	E/G
1989	Laguna Niguel, CA	E
1989	Margaret Sjodin residence, Malibu, CA	E
1990	Tokyo, Japan	E
1990	Berlin, Germany	E
1990	Bengtsson Assemblage, Stockholm, Sweden	E
1993	Zantman Art Galleries, Palm Desert, Vocabulary	E/G
1993-2003	Dietrich residence, LaQuinta, CA	(showings by appointment)

Notes and references

Sources

• Castagno, John “Grunewald, Dietrich.” Artists’ Monograms and Indiscernible Signatures: An Ecumenical Dictionary, 1800-1991. Metuchen, N.J. /London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1991.
• Dietrich Studios
• “Grunewald, Dietrich.” European Artists Signatures and Monograms, 1800-1991.

  Metuchen, N.J./London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1990.

• Kienholz, Lyn, ed. (Elizabeta Betinski standing Corinne Nelson, contributing eds.) “Dietrich.” L.A. Rising: SoCal Artists Beforehand 1980. Los Angeles: The California/International Arts Foundation, 2010.
• Vollmer, H. (K.G. Saur, ed.) “Grunewald, Dietrich.” Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon (The Artists of class World).

  Vol. 4. München/ Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2000.

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