Joseph Gies
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Joseph Gies, American, 1860-1935. A late 19th century oil on board portrait of a young woman sitting on forested beach. Signed "Joseph Gies" lower right. Image 13 3/4 x 10 1/2" high, framed 15 3/4 x 18 3/4" high overall.
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Biography:
Born in Detroit Michigan in 1860, Joseph Gies is regarded as one of the finest portrait artists to emerge from Detroit in the late 19th century. Gies studied at the Cooper Union, NAD and the Art Students' League in New York. He worked under William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Robert Fleury in Paris before continuing his studies at the Royal Academy of Munich. After some years in Europe, he returned to Detroit in 1890, and joined the staff of the Detroit Museum of Art School where he continued until its closure in 1895. In September 1895, he founded the Detroit Fine Arts Academy with Francis P. Paulus and maintained directorship until 1911. Gies and Paulus also started the Ann Arbor Art School in 1896. Gies painted portraits of prominent Michigan residents, many of which are now in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Gies won the Scarab Club Metal in 1918. He died from a fall in his Dearborn studio in 1935.