Pauline Dohn Rudolph | |
Birth Name: | Pauline Amalie Dohn |
Birth Place: | Chicago, Illinois |
Nationality: | American |
Education: | Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Académie Julian |
Field: | Painting |
Spouse: | (his death)[1] |
Pauline Dohn Rudolph (1865-1934) was an American painter. She was also a founder of the Chicago Palette Club.
Dohn was born in Chicago in 1865.[2] She studied art at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts[3] and then at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia where she studied with Thomas Eakins and Thomas Anschutz.[4] This was followed by a move to Paris where she enrolled in the Académie Julian and studied with Boulanger and Lefebvre.[5] [6]
Returning to Chicago she founded[7] and exhibited at the Palette Club before accepting a teaching position at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts.[5]
Dohn exhibited at least four works at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago - the mural Industrial Arts for the Reception Room of the Illinois State Building, and paintings in the Palace of Fine Arts and The Woman's Building.[8]
Dohn married Franklin Rudolph in 1901, with whom she had three children.[5] She moved to California in 1933, where she died on June 19, 1934.[1]