John Joseph Enneking - Encyclopedia

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JOHN JOSEPH ENNEKING (1841-), American landscape painter, was born, of German ancestry, in Minster, Ohio, on the 4th of October 1841. He was educated at Mount St Mary's College, Cincinnati, served in the American Civil War in 1861-1862, studied art in New York and Boston, and gave it up because his eyes were weak, only to return to it after failing in the manufacture of tinware. In1873-1876he studied in Munich under Schleich and Leier, and in Paris under Daubigny and Bonnat; and in1878-1879he studied in Paris again and sketched in Holland. Enneking is a "plein-airist," and his favourite subject is the "November twilight" of New England, and more generally the half lights of early spring, late autumn, and winter dawn and evening.