27 Facts About Agnes Weinrich

Agnes Weinrich studied art in Chicago, Provincetown, and New York.

Agnes Weinrich made block prints and etchings and drew using pencil and crayon.

Agnes Weinrich was born on July 16,1873, on a prosperous farm in southeast Iowa.

In May 1898, Agnes Weinrich and her sister Helen, then called Lena, traveled to Germany with their aunt, a German-born music teacher named Rose Werthmueller.

In 1904, the sisters returned to the United States and settled for two years in Springfield, Illinois, where Helen taught piano in public schools and Agnes Weinrich painted in a rented studio.

In May 1905, Agnes Weinrich won prizes in an exhibition held by the Illinois State Fair for the drawings and oil paintings she showed.

Later that year, the two moved to Chicago where Agnes studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago under John Vanderpoel, Nellie Walker, Frederick W Freer, and Ralph Clarkson.

On her return from Europe in 1914, Agnes Weinrich continued to study art.

Agnes Weinrich contributed nine pictures to this show, all of them said to be representational and somewhat conservative in style.

One of these is his wife, the former Helen Weinrich, and her sister, Agnes Weinrich, who died six years ago.

One author says Agnes Weinrich led Knaths to adopt an abstract style of painting; another points out that Agnes Weinrich and Knaths shared artistic leanings and mutually influenced each other's increasing use of abstraction in their work.

Agnes Weinrich was then 31, Helen 46, and Agnes 49 years old.

Agnes Weinrich received attention from critics outside these two home bases.

Agnes Weinrich's work appeared and received critical notice from time to time in the Boston Globe and in 1939 that paper reviewed a solo exhibition at the Boston Conservatory of Music.

Agnes Weinrich died in Provincetown on April 17,1946, at the age of 73.

Agnes Weinrich became a founding member of the New York Society of Women Artists in 1925.

In 1926, Agnes Weinrich joined with Knaths and other local artists in a rebellion against the more conservative artists who had dominated the Provincetown Art Association.

In 1998, a Provincetown gallery owner told a reporter that Agnes Weinrich's career had three phases: one in which realism predominated; a second in which she employed a semi-abstract style; and a third that was purely abstract.

Agnes Weinrich's Drawing of an Old Woman of about 1915 is in a realist style.

Agnes Weinrich had seen cubist and other avant-garde art while in Paris and met American artists who had begun to appreciate it.

Agnes Weinrich's painting, "Woman With Flowers" of 1920 shows similarities to Metzinger's 1911 painting called "Le gouter ".

For most of her career, Agnes Weinrich produced works in oil, watercolor or gouache, pencil or crayon, and prints.

Agnes Weinrich is definitely in harmony with the Parisian spirit, indifferent to imitation, and yet motivated by the outward qualities of the things she paints.

Agnes Weinrich's inherited income made it unnecessary for her to earn a living and gave her the freedom to make whatever art she wished.

Agnes Weinrich participated in many group exhibitions held by nonprofit organizations such as the Provincetown Art Association and the New York Society of Women Artists.

Agnes Weinrich held three solo exhibitions during her life: in 1936 at the Harley Perkins Gallery in Boston, in 1938 at the public library in Washington DC, and in 1946, at the Woljeska Gallery.

Agnes Weinrich showed an oil called "Still Life" at the 1920 Provincetown Art Association exhibition.