Severin roesen biography definition

Severin Roesen (ca. 1815 – after 1872) is a painter known for his abundant fruit and flower still lifes and is today recognized as one of the major American still-life painters of the mid-nineteenth century.

Life

Little is known about Roesen.

He is believed to have been born in or near Cologne, and to have exhibited a floral painting at the Cologne local art club in 1847.[1] He immigrated to New York in 1848, and exhibited eleven paintings there at the American Art-Union between 1848 and 1852.[1] Roesen moved to Pennsylvania in 1857, leaving New York and his family.[1] He lived briefly in Philadelphia, and then moved to rural, German-American communities in Harrisburg, Huntingdon, and finally Williamsport, where he settled around 1863.[1] During this period, he also exhibited works at the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore in 1858, at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1863, and at the Brooklyn Art Association in 1873.[1]

The Williamsport Sun and Banner reported in 18