Marc Huehn: The Impressionist
Marc Huehn (born September 18, 1884, New Brunswick, New Jersey – died November 23, 1918, Paris, France) was the American-born German painter largely known through his paintings that were suggestive of impressionist techniques. He grew up in an aristocratic family whose patriarch was a patron of the arts.
Very early in his life, Marc Huehn was already exposed to the paintings of renowned Impressionists Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and Alfred Sisley. His father frequently took him to art exhibits that featured the artwork of the artists he idolized. When he came of age, he went to Paris and enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts where he received his formal training in painting and sculpting. He studied the artwork of the preceding ages, mostly from Renaissance and Baroque periods, and picked up essential techniques from the masters while developing his own.
After graduating from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Marc Huehn travelled around Europe to extend his art studies. To support himself, he painted portraits for some local families and sold some of his oil paintings whenever he could. Like many of his contemporaries though, Marc Huehn failed to establish himself financially through art. His financial condition was worsened when he contracted tuberculosis a few years after he finished his formal study in Paris. When he died at the age of 34, some of his paintings were temporarily exhibited at the French Academy of Fine Arts.
