Frederick Juengling

Frederick Juengling (born Friedrich Jüngling, 8 October 1846 – 31 December 1889) was a wood engraver and painter.

Biography

Juengling was born in Leipzig, Germany.^[1] He obtained a common school education until the age of 14 in Leipzig.^[2] Juengling then worked as an apprentice to an engraver in Berlin before emigrating to the United States in 1866.^[3]

He studied painting at the Art Students' League in New York City, adopted art as a profession, and attained much recognition as a wood engraver. He was a founder of the American Society of Wood Engravers, its first secretary 1881-1882, and was vice-president of the Art Students' League 1882-1883. He received honorable mention at the Paris Salon in 1881, and a second-class medal at an international exhibition of fine arts held in Munich in 1883.

Juengling was identified with what was known as the new school in wood engraving. This American system of wood engraving substituted short, broken lines and dot stippling and so forth for the regulation long lines and regular sweep of the metal engraver. Sylvester Koehler, in his paper on the United States contributed to the folio volume Die Radierung der Gegenwart ("Current engraving," Vienna, 1892–93), calls him the "boldest and most inconsiderate experimenter among the pioneers of the new school," but cites his reproduction of "Monticello" as a veritable triumph of wood engraving. Juengling's reproductions of Kelly's illustrations in Scribner's Monthly (1877) is regarded by Weitenkampf as making "the first obvious, continued assertion of the new point of view."

Juengling died in New York City, survived by his wife, Helen Juengling.^[4]

Works

Engravings

• The Professor, engraved after Frank Duveneck
• The Voice of the Sea, after Arthur Quartley

Paintings

• The Intruder (1884)
• Westward Bound (1884)
• In the Street (1886)

Notes

1. "Online Collections Frederick Juengling". Portland Art Museum. Retrieved 2014-01-21.
2. J.T. White Company (1901). The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time, Volume 11. J.T. White Company. p. 195.
3. Lekisch, Barbara (2003). Embracing Scenes about Lakes Tahoe & Donner: Painters, Illustrators & Sketch Artists 1855-1915. Great West Books. p. 99. ISBN 0944220142.
4. "PROVENANCE". Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Retrieved 2014-01-21.

References

•  Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Juengling, Frederick". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

Attributin

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1892). "Juengling, Frederick". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Juengling, Frederick". Encyclopedia Americana. This work in turn cites:
  • Weitenkampf, Frank, American Graphic Art (New York, 1912).
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1915). "Juengling, Frederick (1915)". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.