Robert Frederick Blum (1857-1903)

Professions: Painter; Etcher; Lithographer

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  Robert Frederick Blum (1857-1903)

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  Venetian Lace Makers

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  Woman in a Gondola with San Giorgio Maggiore in the Background (In the Gondola)

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  Robert Frederick Blum (1857-1903)

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Robert Frederick Blum Biography

(b Cincinnati, OH, 9 July 1857; d New York, 8 June 1903). American painter and illustrator. The son of German–American parents, he probably became interested in magazine illustration while an apprentice at Gibson & Co., lithographers in Cincinnati, during 1873 and 1874. He began drawing lessons at the McMicken School of Design (now the Art Academy of Cincinnati) c . 1873, transferring to the Ohio Mechanics Institute in 1874. Blum visited the Centennial Exposition (1876) in Philadelphia and was impressed with paintings by Giovanni Boldini and Mariano Fortuny y Mansal and by Japanese art. He remained there for about nine months, studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

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