Theodore Wendel (1857-1932)
Theodore Wendel (1857-1932)
Born to German parents in Midway, Ohio, Theodore Wendel studied art at the McMicken School of Design before traveling to Munich, where he enrolled at the Royal Academy in 1876. There he joined a circle of artists around Frank Duveneck, painting and traveling through Italy during the summers and spending winters at Duveneck’s school of art in Munich until his return to the United States in 1882. By 1886 Wendel was back in Europe, this time in France, at Giverny, where he met Claude Monet. Wendel soon abandoned the dark realism of his Munich years and embraced the lighter palette and more atmospheric painting of the Impressionists.
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Wendel painted in Gloucester from 1888 until 1902 or 1903, where he first began to adapt his Impressionist style to the New England landscape. In 1897 he married one of his students, Philena Stone, and together they moved to a large family farm in Ipswich, Massachusetts. From this time on, Ipswich became the focus of his work. Not only did he paint landscapes and people, but he also loved the farm and worked it himself. In 1917 he suffered an infection in his jaw, and stopped painting from that time on, until his death in 1932.
