Background
Fiene, Ernest was born on November 2, 1894 in Elberfield, Germany. Son of Henry William and Maria (Egger) Fiene.
Fiene, Ernest was born on November 2, 1894 in Elberfield, Germany. Son of Henry William and Maria (Egger) Fiene.
Came to the United States, 1912, naturalized, 1927. Student National Academy of Design, 1914-1918, Beaux Arts, New York, 1916-1918, Art Students League, 1923.
February 1961) children—Paul R., Maria Louise. Painter landscapes, portraits. Lithograph artist and etcher.
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Art Students League, National Academy of Design, Cooper Union, New York City. Member supervising faculty Famous Artists Schools, Westport, Connecticut Works include Hudson River Boat, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Dykeman Saint Church, Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
Connecticut Winter, Cleveland Art Museum.
Reclining Nude, Detroit Museum Artist Brooklyn Bridge, New York Public Library, lithographs.
Connecticut Hills, Winter, Denver Art Museum. Entrance to the Village, Newark Art Museum.
Concetta, Snow Landscape, Hudson River Boat, Whitney Museum.
Elm Trees, Dartmouth College. Fall of Old Houses, Phillips Memorial Gallery. Pittsburgh in Winter, U. Nebraska.
Low Clouds, Adirondacks, Brooklyn Museum.
Dyckman Street Church, Library Congress. Brick Factory, Los Angeles Museum, Frosty Morning, Saint Louis Museum.
New Snow, Metropolitan Museum, New York City. View in Venice, Museum Modern Art, New York City.
Portrait Dean Irma Voigt, Ohio U. at Athens.
Portrait Professor Charles Knapp, Columbia University. Mural depicting Paul Revere as industrialist, Post Office, Canton, Massachusetts. Coming Home, Swope Gallery, Terre Haute, Indiana.
Four murals in New Department of Interior Building, Washington.
Two murals entitled History of the Needle Trades, in auditorium High School Fashion Industries, New York, also two mosaics for entrance same building. Other murals, numerous industrial and landscape scenes.
Guggenheim fellow, 1932. Reicpient Norman Watt Harris prize, 1937, for oil painting, Frosty Morning, 4th West. A. Clark prize and Corcoran honorable mention for painting, Spring Evening.
Honorable mention Carnegie International Exposition, 1939, and Ada South. Garrett prize, 1940.
Joseph Pennell purchase prize Library of Congress. Ranger Fund purchase, Edwin Palmer Memorial award National Academy of Design, 1961.
Member supervising faculty Famous Artists Schools, Westport, Connecticut. Member National Academy of Design (first vice president), International Institute Arts and Letters, Art, Students League New York (life. Club: Century Association (New York City).
Married Jeanette Ettarre, September 8, 1921 (divorced). Married second, Alicia Wiencek, 1945 (deceased.