Charles paul gruppe biography of michaels

American painter

Charles Paul Gruppé (3 September , Picton, Canada West – 30 September , Rockport, Massachusetts)^[1][2] was a Canadian-born, American painter.^[3][4]

About

Charles Paul Gruppé was born 3 September in Picton, Ontario, Canada.^[4][5] He moved to Rochester at the age of three with his mother Albertina Gruppe (–) and brother Herman and sister Clara, after the death of his father Henry W.

Gruppe.^[6][2] He was a self-taught artist.^[2] In , at the age of twelve, he was a founder of the Rochester Art Club.^[2]

Between and , Gruppé lived in the Netherlands, where he painted with the Hague School and acted as a dealer for Dutch painters in the United States.

He, his wife Helen Elizabeth (née Mitchell) and their children returned permanently to America in ahead of World War I. Gruppe owned a Queen Annes-stylerow house from July until , at Manhattan Avenu