Frederick Dielman was an American

United States

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 portrait and figure painter

Painting

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Biography

He was born in Hanover

Hanover

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, Germany

Germany

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. He was taken to the United States in early childhood. He graduated from Calvert College in New Windsor, Maryland

New Windsor, Maryland

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, in 1864, and from 1866 to 1872 served as a topographer and draughtsman for the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers in Fortress Monroe and Baltimore, and in the survey of canal routes over the Alleghanies in Virginia

Virginia

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. He then studied under Wilhelm von Diez at the Royal Academy at Munich where he received a medal in the life

Figure drawing

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He opened a studio in New York City

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, where he worked at first as an illustrator of books and magazines, and became a distinguished draughtsman and painter of genre pictures. He was one of the original members of the Society of American Artists

Society of American Artists

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, was made a National Academician in 1883, and was also a member of the American Water Color Society, the New York Etching Club

New York Etching Club

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, and the Salmagundi Sketch Club. He was president of the Arts Federation of New York.

In 1899, he was elected president of the National Academy of Design

National Academy of Design

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In 1903, Dielman became professor of drawing at the College of the City of New York

College of the City of New York

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 and about the same time was made director of the art schools at Cooper Union

Cooper Union

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He made major contributions to deluxe editions of works by Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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, Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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, George Eliot

George Eliot

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, and other writers, and to the various publications of the Tile Club, of which he was a member. His mural decorations and mosaic panels for the Library of Congress

Library of Congress

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 in Washington

Washington, D.C.

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are notable. Among his pictures shown at National Academy exhibitions were “The Patrician Lady” (1877), “Young Gamblers” (1885), and a “Head” (1886). One of the best known of his illustrations is that entitled “A Girl I Know.”