Background
Augustus Koopman was born on January 2, 1869 in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. He was the son of Bernard and Johanna Koopman.
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Augustus Koopman was born on January 2, 1869 in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. He was the son of Bernard and Johanna Koopman.
Koopman began his art studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, in Philadelphia, going later to Paris, where he entered the École des Beaux-Arts. For some time he also studied under Bouguereau and Robert-Fleury.
Like many American artists he practically made France his home, wintering in Paris and spending the spring and summer in Étaples and in the nearby village of Equihen, where he found inspiration in the ocean, with its wind storms, disasters, and its boats. His "Horses Running to Meet a Boat, " now in the St. Paul Art Institute, is a vigorous depiction of his subject. Full of movement also are "The Wind Storm" and "A Windy Day. "
"Hoisting Sails" is rich in color with strong contrasts of light and shadow. His early work had many of the qualities characteristic of the modern Dutch artists, especially the marine painters Mesdag and Blommers. Later he came under the influence of the impressionists and the postimpressionists, without attaching himself to either school.
Besides marines, he painted some clever figure pictures and a notable decoration, "Industrial Arts, " for the United States government pavilion at the Paris Exposition in 1900. Among his figure pictures "The Crystal Gazers" and the "Old Troubadour, " the latter in the Philadelphia Art Club, are painted with great charm of pose and color. His drypoints and etchings were usually of fishermen, scenes in cafés, and figures, all done in careful line.
He taught painting in Paris from 1896 to 1899 and was elected an associé of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1912.
From 1902 to 1906 he lived in London, where he specialized in portraits.
His pictures gained favor for their marked individuality. He was in Étaples at the time of his death, working hard, in spite of a lingering illness.
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On May 6, 1897 Koopman married Louise Lovett Osgood of Cohasset, Massachussets.