biography of Johann Gustav GRUNEWALD (1805-1878)

Birth place: Gnadau, Germany

Death place: Gnadenburg, Germany

Addresses: Bethlehem, PA

Profession: Landscape and portrait painter, lithographer, and drawing teacher

Exhibited: Artists' Fund Soc. & PAFA ann., 1836-64; NAD, 1836-48; Maryland Hist. Soc.; Apollo Assoc.; Am. Art-Union

Work: Bethlehem, PA, at the Moravian Archives; Moravian College; and the Girls' Seminary; also represented at Moravian Hist. Soc., Nazareth, PA.

Comments: Grunewald came to America in 1831 and settled in Bethlehem (PA), where he taught drawing and painting in the Moravian Seminary for Young Ladies from 1836-66. He exhibited often, one of his main subjects being the landscape of Pennsylvania. He returned to Germany in 1868. Also appears as Greenwald.

Sources: G&W; Thieme-Becker; Cowdrey, AA & AAU; Cowdrey, NAD; Rutledge, PA; Rutledge, MHS; Peters, America on Stone; Magazine of Art (April 1939), 224, repro. More recently, see Gerdts, Art Across America, vol. 1, 267 (with repro.).