Realistic painter George Hetzel is considered one of Pennsylvania's most significant landscape, portrait, and still-life painters of the nineteenth century. He was born in Hangviller, a small village... Read full biography
Realistic painter George Hetzel is considered one of Pennsylvania's most significant landscape, portrait, and still-life painters of the nineteenth century. He was born in Hangviller, a small village in the province of Alsace, France, in 1826. Hetzels father decided that America offered... Read full biography
Realistic painter George Hetzel is considered one of Pennsylvania's most significant landscape, portrait, and still-life painters of the nineteenth century. He was born in Hangviller, a small village in the province of Alsace, France, in 1826. Hetzels father decided that America offered unparalleled opportunities for a better life, however, and when George was two years of age, his family left Hangviller for the New World. Their travels took them from the port of Baltimore to their final... Read full biography
Realistic painter George Hetzel is considered one of Pennsylvania's most significant landscape, portrait, and still-life painters of the nineteenth century. He was born in Hangviller, a small village in the province of Alsace, France, in 1826. Hetzels father decided that America offered unparalleled opportunities for a better life, however, and when George was two years of age, his family left Hangviller for the New World. Their travels took them from the port of Baltimore to their final destination, a small farm in Allegheny City, now the North Side of Pittsburgh. Hetzel attended public school in Allegheny City and was later apprenticed to a house and sign painter. Approximately four years later he was accepted as an apprentice by a local... Read full biography
Realistic painter George Hetzel is considered one of Pennsylvania's most significant landscape, portrait, and still-life painters of the nineteenth century. He was born in Hangviller, a small village in the province of Alsace, France, in 1826. Hetzels father decided that America offered unparalleled opportunities for a better life, however, and when George was two years of age, his family left Hangviller for the New World. Their travels took them from the port of Baltimore to their final destination, a small farm in Allegheny City, now the North Side of Pittsburgh. Hetzel attended public school in Allegheny City and was later apprenticed to a house and sign painter. Approximately four years later he was accepted as an apprentice by a local artisan for whom he decorated cabins and public rooms on riverboats and painted murals in a number of Pittsburgh saloons. Hetzel's... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (30)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Art at the Residence of the Ambassador of the United States of America to the Kingdom of Norway: Art in Embassies Program
2003
Ong, John Doyle (Intro)
52 pages (color)
Early Art and Artists in West Virginia
2000
Cuthbert, John A.
301 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
All That Is Glorious Around Us Hudson River School/A Loan Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Driscoll, John Paul
144 pages (color)
Selections From the Permanent Collection: Southern Alleghenies
1996
Strueber, Michael (Director)
118 pages (color)
Revisiting the White City American Art at the 1893 World's Fair (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Carr, Carolyn K
408 pages (color)
William M Harnett (exhibition several artists) (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Bolger, Doreen; Marc Simpson; John Wilmerding
333 pages (color)
American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art
1992
Strazdes, Diana
511 pages (color)
The Hudson River School An Annotated Bibliography
1991
Sullivan, Mark W
225 pages
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Southwestern Pennsylvania Painters Collection Westmorland Museum of Art
1989
Chew, Paul
138 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
The Hudson River School The Landscape Art (of 25 artists)
1989
Minks, Louise
112 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Falk, Peter Hastings
472 pages
American Paradise World of the Hudson River School (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Howat, John K
346 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
Artists in Virginia Before 1900: An Annotated Checklist
1983
Wright, R Lewis
200 pages
American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols)
1982
Koke, Richard J
1,243 pages
American Paintings (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Schwarz-Philadelphia
23 pages
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
Currents of Expansion Painting in the Midwest, 1820-1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Barter, Judith; Lynn E Springer
189 pages
American Cornucopia 19th Century Still Lifes and Studies (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Brindle, John V/Sally Secrest
48 pages (color)
Catalogue of Painting Collection Museum of Art
1973
Carnegie Institute
196 pages (color)
Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set) (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Naylor, Maria
1,075 pages
The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957
Groce, George; David Wallace
759 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index