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Frederick Ruple (September 19, 1871〔"Dr. phil. Roland E. Hofer, Staatsarchivar," accessed February 28, 2010, www.staatsarchiv.sh.ch〕 - May 23, 1938〔"Frederick Ruple, Artist, Dies at Home in Tulsa," Tulsa Daily World, May 24, 1938〕) was a 20th-century Swiss-American painter, primarily of portraits.〔 He was commissioned to paint Confederate Civil War battle scenes and murals. At times Ruple lived in Arkansas and Oklahoma where he traveled to study American Indians and early settlement in the Midwest.〔”Huge Painting Depicts Run Into Oklahoma,” Tulsa Daily World, March 20, 1932〕〔”Painting Depicting ‘Run” To Be Presented State,” The Daily Oklahoman, Sunday, March 20, 1932〕 The Oklahoma Land Run of 1889 inspired Ruple to create his most famous painting "The Spirit of '89". As a painter, Ruple took commission jobs that came from builders and decorators who hired him to paint murals and designs on public buildings. The work he did along these lines was among the most prominent in America.〔〔 == Early life == Frederick Ruple was born on September 19, 1871 in Unterhallau, a part of Hallau, in the canton of Schaffhausen, Switzerland.〔 His parents were butcher Hermann Rupli and Barbara Neukomm.〔 Hermann Rupli wandered off to America without his family on May 24, 1872.〔"Dr. phil. Roland E. Hofer, Staatsarchivar, according to Familienregister Der Gemeinde Hallau, volume 3, page 238, State Archives Schaffhausen, Switzerland"〕 Hermann and Barbara were divorced on November 12, 1874 according to Schaffhausen court records. Frederick was 3 years old at that time.〔 Frederick’s mother relocated to Basel in 1885, when Frederick was 14 years old. Barbara Neukomm was registered in the address book of Basel in 1885 at the address Mattweg 53rd, from 1886 to 1891. She worked as a housekeeper at the address 30 Greifengasse, Basel.〔"Staatsarchiv Basel-Stadt," Präsidialdepartement, Martinsgasse 2, CH 4001 Basel, www.staatsarchiv.bs.ch〕 When Frederick Ruple was 14 he became an apprentice to an artificial limb manufacturer.〔"Frederick Ruple will be buried here Wednesday," South West American, May 25, 1938〕 In the summer of 1887, he attended the General school. When he was 16 years old he lived in Spores Gasse 16, Basel.〔〔http://www.Ruppl_F school.pdf〕 He was in training as a photographer with Emil Gassler, at Aeschenvorstadt 42.〔〔"www.fotorevers.eu"/de/fotograf/Gassler/2269/〕 On Gassler's poster it says in German: "Photographien in allen grossen portrait in oel"; in English this is: "Photographs in all sizes, portraits in oil".〔 In 1891, at age 19, Ruple immigrated with his mother to America.〔〔〔 Around this time, his last name changed from Rupli to Ruple. In the United States he first lived with his mother's sister in Cincinnati.〔 During this time, an art dealer saw his drawings and ordered a copy of a photograph in colors, which was the first such piece of work sold in that country.〔 Ruple, while still a young man, moved to Little Rock to become the protégé of Mrs. James P. Eagle, wife of the state's governor at the time, and his work of painting portraits began. Governor Eagle, General Forest and other prominent men of the state sat for him.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frederick Ruple」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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