John Quincy Adams

Paintings

John Quincy Adams

Portrait of the lady of Theo Drill-Orridge

John Quincy Adams (born December 21, 1874 in Vienna, † March 15, 1933 ibid) was an Austrian painter.

Life

John Quincy Adams was the son of Carl Adams (1834-1900) who worked in 1867-1877 in Vienna as Heldentenor of the Vienna Court Opera and who was born in Boston in the US, and received his first name in reference to an ancestor, the 6th President of the United States, John Quincy Adams. Adams spent his youth from 1878 to 1884 with his parents in the United States. From 1891 he attended the painting school of Robert Scheffer in Vienna and then studied from 1893 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Siegmund L'Allemand and August Eisenmenger. He then studied in Munich with Carl von Marr and Johann Caspar Herterich and in Paris at the Académie Julian with Jules Laurens and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant. However, the influence of James McNeill Whistler in London on his painting was influential. Study trips took him to the Netherlands, Italy and Spain. [2]

Portrait of John Quincy Adams' wife Stefanie (1912)

From 1903 Adams was a member of the Künstlerhaus in Vienna, in whose exhibitions he participated. In 1904 he received the Small Golden State Medal, in 1905 the Archduke Karl Ludwig Medal for the portrait of Mrs. Gretl Urban, and in 1906 the Grand Golden State Medal in Vienna for the painting We have to go through many tribulations in the Kingdom of God and 1907 in Salzburg. In 1907 he received a small gold medal at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition.

During the First World War he was a member of the art group of k.u.k. War press quarters and painted in the Russian, Italian, Serbian and Albanian theater of war. Some of the works from this period are now in the collections of the Vienna Military History Museum.

Adams often spent his summer vacation in Sankt Gilgen, where he had a prefabricated wooden house from Sweden delivered, later taken over by Alfred Gerstenbrand (1881-1977). Presumably he also had contact to the later so-called Zinkenbacher painter colony.

Adams, whose studio was in Theresianum Alley, often stayed in the United States, where he had great success. Shortly before a major exhibition, to which he had invited the Pittsburgh Carnegie Institute, the artist died in the sanatorium Auerspergstraße in Vienna.

His honorary grave is located on the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 35D, row 1, number 28). [5]

John Quincy Adam's daughter Harriet Adams, married Harriet Walderdorff, became after 1948 with her Salzburg hotel Zum Goldenen Hirschen a recognized hotelier, who was elected president of the Austrian Hotel Association in 1963. [6] In 1986, she initiated an exhibition about her father in the Academy of Fine Arts, which had his work as a portraitist to the content.

Work

John Quincy Adams dealt with portraiture, genre and landscape painting. He became famous for his portraits of personalities of Viennese society, many of which go beyond the purely portraiture. A scandal triggered in 1909, the presentation of a gynecological surgery, which exceeded the scope of a group portrait. In addition to numerous privately owned paintings, works by Adams can be found in the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere and in the Wien Museum. A catalog of his works appeared in 1938 in Boston.

His well-known works include:

    Funeral prayer in the mourning house to Volendam, 1903
    We must go through many tribulations in the Kingdom of God Triptych on Dutch motives, 1905
    Portrait of Mrs. Gretl Urban, around 1905
    Portrait of the artist's wife (Österreichische Galerie), around 1905
    life journey
    Helene Odilon (WienMuseum)
    Paul Gautsch Freiherr von Frankenthurn (Theresianum)

gallery

    Luise Eisner, later Princess Odescalchi, (Vienna, Belvedere, Inv. No. 5554) 1926

    Countess Michael Karolyi, (private collection) 1918, oil on canvas, 180 × 175 cm

    Baroness Kitty Rothschild, (Vienna, Belvedere) 1916, oil on canvas, 215 × 128.5 cm

    Portrait of a young lady, 1908

    Johann II v Liechtenstein, 1908

    Wertheim during an operation, 1907, oil on canvas

References

For the year of birth and date different information is given in the literature, the most common is the date:
December 21, 1874:
Fuchs, Kleindel (with "?"), Liechtenstein Museum, Adams, John Quincy. In: Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker (ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present. Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. Volume 1: Aa-Antonio de Miraguel. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1907, S. 74-75 (Text Archive - Internet Archive). (with the note at the entry: "After personal Mitt. of the Kstlers by G. Klement.)", Vollmer
There are also the following details:
February 12, 1873: Austrian Gallery Belvedere Regine Schmidt: Art in Austria 1918-1938 from the Austrian Gallery. Exhibition catalog, Schloss Halbturn 1984
December 21, 1873: Rudolf Schmidt: Austrian artist's dictionary. Volume 1. Vienna 1980, p. 461
December 23, 1873: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (according to her student list)
December 21, 1875: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815-1950 (page no longer available, search in web archives) i Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this hint.
December 21, 1875: Death certificate to Czeike
Austrian Army Museum (ed.): Catalog of War Pictorial Gallery of the Austrian Army Museum, Vienna 1923, p. 8
Austrian Army Museum (ed.): Catalog of War Pictorial Gallery of the Austrian Army Museum, Vienna 1923, p. 5.
Sanatorium Auerspergstraße. In: New Viennese Tagblatt. Democratic organ, No. 300/1910 (XLIV.), November 1, 1910, p. 13, column 1 center. (Online at ANNO).
The funeral took place after the blessing in the Protestant church in the central cemetery on March 18, 1933. ((Deaths.) In: Neue Freie Presse, March 17, 1933, p. 6 (Online at ANNO))
See presidential chronicle of the ÖHV: oehv.at (page no longer available, search in web archives) i Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this hint., Accessed on January 6, 2015.

    Nikolaus Schaffer: Portrait of Viennese society. The painter John Quincy Adams. Catalog for the exhibition from 9th July to 10th August 1986, Vienna 1986.

literature

    Adams, John Quincy. In: Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker (ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present. Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. Volume 1: Aa-Antonio de Miraguel. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1907, S. 74-75 (Text Archive - Internet Archive).
    John Quincy Adams (painter). In: Hans Vollmer: General Encyclopedia of Fine Arts of XX. Century. Volume 1: A-D. E.A. Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 10.
    Heinrich Fuchs: Austrian painters of the 19th century. Volume 1 A-F. Self-published, Vienna 1972, p. K10 and 5-7.
    Adam's John Quincy. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815-1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1957, p. 5 f. (Direct links on p. 5, p. 6).
    Margaret Poch-Kalous: John Quincy Adams - a forgotten Viennese painter. In: Old and Modern Art. 20th year 1975, Issue 138, p. 33ff.
    Regine Schmidt: Art in Austria 1918-1938 from the Austrian Gallery. Exhibition catalog, Schloss Halbthurn 1984.
    Nikolaus Schaffer: Portrait of Viennese society. The painter John Quincy Adams. Catalog for the exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, July 9 to August 10, 1986. Publisher of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna 1986.
    Walter Kleindel: The big book of Austrians. 4500 person representations in words and pictures. In collaboration with Hans Veigl. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-218-00455-1, p. 7.
    John Quincy Adams (painter) in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
    Alexandra Peyrer-Heimstätt: The Viennese painter John Quincy Adams. Diploma thesis University of Vienna, Vienna 1995.