About Louis Frederick Berneker

  • Biography

    On January 28, 1937, the New York Times printed a lengthy and celebratory obituary for painter, illustrator and graphic designer, Louis Frederick Berneker. Born in 1876 in Clinton, Missouri, Berneker was an art student at the St. Louis School and Museum of Fine Art after finishing high school in Clinton. Soon after graduation at this academy, Berneker traveled from St. Louis to Paris, France, where he enrolled in the Academy Julian where he studied with Academician Jean-Paul Laurens (1838-1921), an important sculptor and painter who was known for his re-invigoration of history and historical genre painting with religious and moral overtones during the Third Republic in France.

    After his return to the United States, Berneker op...

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