Maud Daggett (1885 - 1941)
Born: Kreuznach, Germany 1862 Died: Pasadena, California 1945
Jean Mannheim was trained as a bookbinder, a trade which he practiced while attending the Academie Delecluse, the Academie Colarossi, and the Academie Julian in Paris. He also studied in the studios of Paul-Louis Delance, and Fernard Cormon, and William Bouguereau.
In 1881 Mannheim came to the United States, staying with his sister in Chicago. He earned money as a portrait painter which enabled him to return to Europe each summer where he continued his art studies.
Around 1903 Mannheim met Frank Brangwyn in London and began teaching at the Brangwyn School of Art. After two years he returned to the Unites States, settling briefly in Denver where he taught at the Denver Art School. In 1908 he moved to California, built a studio-home on the Arroyo Seco in Pasadena, and opened another studio in the Blanchard Building in Los Angeles. After the death of his wife in 1910, Mannheim worked primarily at home in order to care for his young daughters.
Mannheim was an active member of the Los Angeles art community. He was a founding member of the California Art Club and held memberships on the Pasadena Society of Artists, the Laguna Beach Art Association, and the Long Beach Art Association. He taught at the Stickney Memorial School of Fine Arts in Pasadena and was a frequent exhibitor with the California Art Club and the Painters and Sculptors of Southern California annual exhibitions at the Los Angeles Museum. His work is included in the Western Association of Art Museums’ traveling exhibitions from 1922 to 1925.
Mannheim was known both for his landscapes and figural works. His paintings received many awards including a gold medal, Alaska-Yukon- Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909; gold and silver medals, Panama-California Exposition, San Diego, 1915; and first prize, London School of Art.
Mannheim played the violin and “worshipped truth in nature”. He was described by Everett Carol Maxwell as “ a triumph of individualism which was the direct result of his grasp of the spirit, feeling and the local color of California landscape”.
[Information and excerpts from “Early Artists In Laguna Beach, The Early Impressionists” Catalog by Laguna Beach Art Museum ,1986 and “A Cultural Legacy, The Pasadena Society of Artists Diamond Jubilee Exhibition” Catalog, Pasadena Society Of Artists 2002] |
