Paul Weber

A landscape and portrait painter, Weber studied in Frankfurt, Germany, and immigrated to America at the age of 25. In 1849, he settled in Philadelphia where he frequently exhibited his paintings at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Weber's pictures were displayed in numerous exhibitions at the National Academy of Design, New York, and were shown at the Paris Salons of 1865 and 1868. In 1857, he traveled extensively through Scotland and Germany and returned to Darmstadt in 1860 where he was appointed court painter. Weber also worked as a private art instructor and some of his students included the renowned American marine painters, William Stanley Haseltine, Edward Moran, and William Trost Richards.

Drawing upon the rich tradition of European landscape painting, Weber was inspired by such renowned German Romantic painters as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Gustav Carus. Unlike his German predecessors and contemporaries, Weber favored a less linear, scientific approach to composing his landscapes.

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Gottlieb Daniel Paul Weber (19 January 1823-12 October 1916) was a German artist.

He was born in Darmstadt. He studied art in Frankfurt, and in 1848 came to the United States, settling in Philadelphia. In 1858 he went to Darmstadt, where he was appointed court painter. Among those of his works that are owned in the United States are “A Scene in the Catskills,” in the Corcoran Gallery, Washington (1858); “Morning,” in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; and “Lake Chiemsee, in the Bavarian Highlands.” He died in Munich.