Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Self-Portrait

Albert Gliemann
1822-1871

Self-Portrait

8 5/8 x 7 inches (219 x 178 mm)
Oil on paper laid down on card.
2002.59

Gift of John M. Thayer.

Notes
A portraitist and genre painter, Albert Gliemann was a student at the academy in Dresden, where he settled following completion of his studies. He exhibited there and in Munich, and examples of his work are preserved in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. This is the only work by the artist in the Library's collection.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed at lower left, "Glieman".
Associated names
Thayer, John M. (John MacLane), 1944-2004, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department