Paul Gottlieb Weber
German/American (1823-1916)
Born in Darmstadt to a court musician at the residence of the Grand Duke of Hesse Darmstadt, Paul Gottlieb Weber began his formal education in the arts with the landscape and genre painter August Lucas. He subsequently moved to Frankfurt to study at the Staedelsche Institut, then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He completed his training in Antwerp under the genre painter Josephus Laurentius Dyckmans.
Weber emigrated to the U.S. in 1848, during a period of political instability in Germany. He settled in Philadelphia and made a name for himself as a landscapist and painting instructor. His work was exhibited widely, including at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Boston Athenaeum, and the National Academy of Design in New York City.
Upon Weber’s return to Germany in 1861, he continued to show work in America, most notably at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. His paintings are now in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Neue Pinakothek in Munich, the State Museum in Darmstadt, the museum of the Grand Duke in Magdeburg, and the municipal museums of Wupperthal and Hanover, as well as the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, the High Museum in Atlanta, and the Arnot Art Museum in Elmira, New York.
