Robert frederick blum biography of alberta

Robert Frederick Blum was a major figure painter and illustrator who emerged from the active artistic milieu of mid-century Cincinnati, where he was born. From his studies in Cincinnati, Blum traveled to Philadelphia and studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1876-1877).

Blum and many of his contemporaries greatly admired the meticulously executed work of the Spanish painter, Mario Fortuny, one of the leading artists of the Romano-Spanish school, whose work was exhibited at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition (1876).

In 1880, Blum met up with Frank Duveneck and his "Duveneck boys" in Venice, when the group was associated with James Abbot McNeil Whistler. Both Blum and John H. Twachtman, were profoundly influenced by their meeting with Whistler.

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Unlike Twachtman, however, Blum did not go to Munich. Instead he traveled to Paris to study at the Beaux-Arts Academy (1880). Perhaps the most significant event in the development of Blum's art was the impact his meeti