1. Julius Garibaldi Melchers was an American artist.
15 Facts About Gari Melchers
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Gari Melchers was one of the leading American proponents of naturalism.
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Gari Melchers won a 1932 Gold medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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The son of German-born American sculptor Julius Theodore Melchers, Gari Melchers was a native of Detroit, Michigan, who at seventeen studied art at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf under von Gebhardt and is associated with the Dusseldorf school of painting.
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In 1882, Melchers presented The Letter, painted the previous year in Brittany, at the Paris Salon; this first presentation by a young artist was well received.
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Gari Melchers became a member of the National Academy of Design, New York; the Royal Academy of Berlin; Societe Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris; International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, London, and the Secession Society, Munich; and, besides receiving a number of medals, his decorations include the Legion of Honor, France; the order of the Red Eagle, Germany; and knight of the Order of St Michael, Bavaria.
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Gari Melchers was a member of the Virginia Fine Arts Commission and a trustee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
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Gari Melchers served as chairman of the Art Committee of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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Gari Melchers was an early member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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Gari Melchers spent his final years at Belmont Estate in Falmouth, Virginia, near Fredericksburg.
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Gari Melchers completed a set for three murals in 1921 for the Detroit Public Library, depicting the history of Detroit.
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Gari Melchers subsequently was commissioned to paint four murals of notable Missourians for the Governor's office in the Missouri State Capitol.
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Gari Melchers's work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
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Gari Melchers's painting Winter was stolen in Germany by the Nazis in 1933 and discovered at the Arkell Museum in Canajoharie, New York in 2019.
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An amazingly prolific artist, Gari Melchers' paintings are in museum collections worldwide.