Young Lady with Parasol - Masterpiece Jigsaw Puzzle
Artwork by American Impressionist, Karl Albert Buehr.
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Young Lady with Parasol (from back of puzzle box)
Karl Albert Buehr (American 1866-1952)

American art in the decades prior to the Civil War concentrated on defining a national identity among artist. Throughout the mid nineteenth century, artists such as Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt and Frederic Church conveyed a patriotic message though a realistic style of painting. During the 1860's, the panoramic pastoral and wilderness scenes that had been rendered in the patriotic air seemed outdated. These young artists sought to break free from aesthetic tradition by becoming more directly linked to international trends.

Paris was the common hub for artist such as Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley, who were reveling against the tradition of academic art. In the 1870's and 1880's, this group of artist (labeled "Impressionists") received hostile responses from the Parisian art critics who considered their work loose, unpolished and sketch-like.

The French Impressionists were first inspired to paint outdoors in an attempt to capture the transformations taking place in their urban environment. This new approach to painting led to the Impressionists to scrutinize the effects of light and color on an entirely new level. Soon, their concentration was fixed on capturing the quality of atmospheric light, the reflections affecting the object, and the juxtaposition of colors. Many American artists were inspired by the French Impressionists' new outlook, which challenged traditional methods and developed a new way of looking at their world.

Karl Albert Buehr is certainly one of America's most talented artists. Like his contemporaries, he favored working in outdoor settings. He captured the vitality of plein -air scenes with vibrant color and contrasting texture. Born in Germany in 1866, Buehr immigrated to America to pursue an education at The Art Institute of Chicago. He further studied at the Academie Julian in Paris and at the London School of Art, and then continued his education in Holland. Buehr was greatly influenced during the time he spend in Giverny, France, where he became well-acquainted with the works of Monet and other French Impressionists.

Buehr painted Young Lady with Parasol in 1912, and it was exhibited in 1917 in Chicago. In reviewing the exhibition, The Fine Arts Journal said of Buehr's painting, "His red-haired young lady under the scarlet-splashed Japanese parasol, gay in her summer attire of orange blouse and scarlet and white-striped sport skirt, fairly breathes the air of August gardens, and presents a striking and fascinating picture" (The Fine Arts Journal, Vol. XXXV, Chicago, May 1917, page 377). The bright colors, vibrant brushstrokes and lush textures show a profound influence of the Impressionists on Buehr.

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