Gari Melchers
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Gari Melchers or Julius Melchers (August 11, 1860 - November 30, 1932) was an American artist.
He was born at Detroit, Michigan. The son of a sculptor, at seventeen he was sent to Düsseldorf to study art under von Gebhardt, and after three years went to Paris, where he worked at the Académie Julian and the Ecole des Beaux Arts where he studied under Lefèvbre and Boulanger. Attracted by the pictorial side of Holland, he settled at Egmond. His first important Dutch picture, The Sermon, brought him honorable mention at the Paris Salon of 1886.
He became a member of the National Academy of Design, New York; the Royal Academy of Berlin; Socit Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris; International Society of Painters, Sculptors and Engravers, London, and the Secession Society, Munich; and, besides receiving a number of medals, his decorations include the Legion of Honor, France; the order of the Red Eagle, Germany; and knight of the Order of St Michael, Bavaria.
Besides portraits, his chief works are: The Supper at Emmaus, in the Krupp collection at Essen; The Family, National Gallery, Berlin; Mother and Child, Luxembourg; and the decoration, at the Congressional Library, Washington, Peace and War.
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