A painter of portraits, genre scenes and landscapes and a lithographer, Robert Koehler was born in Hamburg, Germany and emigrated to America with his parents in 1854 when Robert was four years old.... Read full biography
A painter of portraits, genre scenes and landscapes and a lithographer, Robert Koehler was born in Hamburg, Germany and emigrated to America with his parents in 1854 when Robert was four years old. The family lived in Milwaukee where Robert Koehler attended the German-English Academy and studied... Read full biography
A painter of portraits, genre scenes and landscapes and a lithographer, Robert Koehler was born in Hamburg, Germany and emigrated to America with his parents in 1854 when Robert was four years old. The family lived in Milwaukee where Robert Koehler attended the German-English Academy and studied with the drawing instructor, Henry Vianden. At age fifteen Koehler apprenticed to a lithography firm, Seifert and Lawton, but continued his studies with Vianden, who encouraged the young man to study in... Read full biography
A painter of portraits, genre scenes and landscapes and a lithographer, Robert Koehler was born in Hamburg, Germany and emigrated to America with his parents in 1854 when Robert was four years old. The family lived in Milwaukee where Robert Koehler attended the German-English Academy and studied with the drawing instructor, Henry Vianden. At age fifteen Koehler apprenticed to a lithography firm, Seifert and Lawton, but continued his studies with Vianden, who encouraged the young man to study in Munich. In the early 1870s, Koehler took a job as a lithographer in Pittsburgh and shortly after in New York where he took night classes at the National Academy of Design with genre painter Lemuel Wilmarth. In the fall of 1873, Koehler left for... Read full biography
A painter of portraits, genre scenes and landscapes and a lithographer, Robert Koehler was born in Hamburg, Germany and emigrated to America with his parents in 1854 when Robert was four years old. The family lived in Milwaukee where Robert Koehler attended the German-English Academy and studied with the drawing instructor, Henry Vianden. At age fifteen Koehler apprenticed to a lithography firm, Seifert and Lawton, but continued his studies with Vianden, who encouraged the young man to study in Munich. In the early 1870s, Koehler took a job as a lithographer in Pittsburgh and shortly after in New York where he took night classes at the National Academy of Design with genre painter Lemuel Wilmarth. In the fall of 1873, Koehler left for Munich, a destination also encouraged by Wilmarth who had studied there. By October, Koehler was enrolled in the Royal... Read full biography
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