Ernest Hemingway Painting by Paul Meijering

About "Ernest Hemingway Painting"

by Paul Meijering

About the artwork

Realistic painting in acrylic of the American writer Ernest Hemingway, painted by the artist Paul Meijering - the original painting is 90 x 120 cm and available for sale.

Ernest Miller Hemingway (Oak Park, July 21, 1899 - Ketchum, July 2, 1961) was an American writer and journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1953 with The Old Man and the Sea and received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. Hemingway produced most of his works between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s. His austere, journalistic writing style contrasted strongly with his image as an adventurer and his turbulent personal life, and would greatly influence modern American and European prose.

Between the two world wars he became the spokesman for the Lost Generation because in his early work he best expressed the problems and mentality of that generation. Hemingway was not only active as a writer, but was also a journalist and war correspondent, as well as an adventurer, sport fisherman and big game hunter, which is reflected in the subjects he chose for his short stories and novels. During the last years of his life he suffered from severe depression which finally led to his suicide on July 2, 1961. He left three sons: John, with his first wife Hadley Richardson, and Patrick and Gregory, with his second wife Pauline Pfeiffer.

His literary legacy is of lasting value, illustrated, among other things, by the fact that his most important works have never been out of print.