HENRIETTE AMIARD OBERTEUFFER (1878-1962)
Still Life with Fruit and Flowers, n.d.
29 x 24 inches
Signed at lower right: H. Amiard. Oberteuffer
Period frame.
Henriette Amiard was born in Le Havre, France, in 1878. She studied at the Academie Julian in Paris under Benjamin Jean-Joseph Constant and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre. While attending the Academie she met her future husband, American artist George Oberteuffer. George and Henriette moved back to the United States after World War I. The two often exhibited together including an exhibition at the Knoedler Gallery in New York City in 1920. A joint exhibition, which included their son, Karl Oberteuffer, was held at Vose Galleries, Boston, in 1940.
Henriette exhibited at the National Academy of Design, the National Association of Women Artists, and the Salons of America among others. She was an active member of the latter two. After her husband died in 1940 she no longer exhibited, but continued to teach. Critics of her time compared her work to that of Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt.
Henriette died in Lexington, Massachusetts, in 1962. A posthumous loan exhibition titled Henriette Amiard Oberteuffer and George Oberteuffer: paintings, watercolors, pastels, and prints, was held at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee in 1979.
EXHIBITIONS:
George and Henriette Oberteuffer, Knoedler Gallery, New York City, 1920
Solo, Arlington Gallery, NYC, 1921
Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, 1926, 1927, 1930
Henriette Amiard Oberteuffer and George Oberteuffer: paintings, watercolors, pastels, and prints, a loan exhibition, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, (TN), 1979
AWARDS:
Brower Prize, Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, AIC, 1926
Logan Medal, Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, AIC, 1927
MEMBERSHIPS:
National Association of Women Artists
Salons of America
