Folkwang Museum In Hag: ROHLFS, rolfs, Christian, German pain and graphic artist: b. Niendorf, Holstein, E 22, 1849; d. Hagen, Jan. 8, 1938. He was son of a poor farmer, and while convalesc after a broken leg began to draw. After stui ing art in Berlin and Weimar, he taught Weimar and, from 1901 to 1910, at the sch of drawing of the Folkwang Museum in Hag Although he began as a painter of romar landscapes, he soon turned to impressionism, c later, while at Hagen, where he came under influence of the pointillists and Vincent van Go: he became strongly expressionistic. At a s later period he concentrated on grotesque them which he presented in angular forms and w large masses of color. His works are in 1 collections of most German museums, in I Museum of Modern Art in New York City, a in other collections in the United States.
The United States, excellent firearms col-may be viewed at the Springfield (Mass.) Museum; West Point (N. Y.) Museum; States National Museum (Smithsonian, angton, D. C.); Winchester Gun Museum, Haven, Conn.; Connecticut State Library Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn.; J. )avis Collection, Claremore, Okla.; Metzger tion, College Station, Texas; Confederate , Richmond, Va.; Huntington (West Va.) ; Milwaukee Public Museum; Metropoli-[useum of Art, New York; and the Chicka-and Chattanooga Military Park, Fort ipe, Ga.
The Field Museum, formerly the Chicago Natural History Museum, occupied its location in Grant Park since I1 Its exhibits embrace anthropology, geology, any, and zoology, and like the Art Institute, heavily engaged in research, publication, teaching. Near the Field Museum in Grant 1 are the John G. Shedd Aquarium and the A Planetarium and Astronomical Museum. Chicago Historical Society maintains a mus< in Lincoln Park concerned with Chicago his and the era of Abraham Lincoln. |