Born in New York City, Henry Mosler became a well-known illustrator and painter of portraits and genre scenes. His parents were Jewish immigrants, and he moved with them to Cincinnati in 1851. He... Read full biography
Born in New York City, Henry Mosler became a well-known illustrator and painter of portraits and genre scenes. His parents were Jewish immigrants, and he moved with them to Cincinnati in 1851. He studied there with James Beard; in Dusseldorf with H. Mucke and A. Kindler from 1863 to 1865; in Paris... Read full biography
Born in New York City, Henry Mosler became a well-known illustrator and painter of portraits and genre scenes. His parents were Jewish immigrants, and he moved with them to Cincinnati in 1851. He studied there with James Beard; in Dusseldorf with H. Mucke and A. Kindler from 1863 to 1865; in Paris with E. Hebert; and in Munich with Karl von Piloty. He first earned recognition in the early 1860s as an illustrator during the Civil War for Harper's Weekly. After that he went to Europe for art... Read full biography
Born in New York City, Henry Mosler became a well-known illustrator and painter of portraits and genre scenes. His parents were Jewish immigrants, and he moved with them to Cincinnati in 1851. He studied there with James Beard; in Dusseldorf with H. Mucke and A. Kindler from 1863 to 1865; in Paris with E. Hebert; and in Munich with Karl von Piloty. He first earned recognition in the early 1860s as an illustrator during the Civil War for Harper's Weekly. After that he went to Europe for art study and returned in 1866 to Cincinnati where he became a successful portraitist. In 1874, he returned to Munich and in 1877, established a studio in Paris where he became famous for his peasant genre scenes of Brittany and Normandy. His narrative work,... Read full biography
Born in New York City, Henry Mosler became a well-known illustrator and painter of portraits and genre scenes. His parents were Jewish immigrants, and he moved with them to Cincinnati in 1851. He studied there with James Beard; in Dusseldorf with H. Mucke and A. Kindler from 1863 to 1865; in Paris with E. Hebert; and in Munich with Karl von Piloty. He first earned recognition in the early 1860s as an illustrator during the Civil War for Harper's Weekly. After that he went to Europe for art study and returned in 1866 to Cincinnati where he became a successful portraitist. In 1874, he returned to Munich and in 1877, established a studio in Paris where he became famous for his peasant genre scenes of Brittany and Normandy. His narrative work, The Return, exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1879, was the first painting by an American purchased... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (41)
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Kentucky The Master Painters
2008
Pennington, Estill Curtis
0 pages (color)
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
Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925
2004
Dearinger, David B.
672 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
Henry Mosler Rediscovered: A Nineteenth Century American-Jewish Artist Curated by Barbara C. Gilbert
1996
Skirball Museum, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles California
143 pages (color)
Picturing History: American Painting, 1770-1930 (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Ayers, William S
256 pages (color)
Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory The Civil War in Art
1993
Holzer, Harold/Mark E Neely Jr
336 pages (color)
Telling Tales 19th Century Narrative Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Pennsylvania Academy
100 pages (color)
American Drawings in the French National Collection, 1760-1945 (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Wiesinger, Veronique; Clair Vaudevire; Pierre Rosenberg (Preface)
110 pages (color)
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons
1990
Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface
430 pages (color)
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Paris 1889 American Artists at the Universal Exposition (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Blaugrund, Annette
304 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 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 of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary
1985
Dawdy, Doris
1,184 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
American Painting V 2, Catalog, Metropolitan Mus Artists born 1816-45
1985
Spasky, Natalie
671 pages
Americans in Brittany and Normand 1868-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Sellin, David / J K Ballinger
229 pages (color)
The Golden Age: Cincinnati Painters of the Nineteenth Century Represented in the Cincinnati Art Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Rogers, Millard F Jr.; Denny Carter, Bruce Weber
218 pages (color)
Recent Ideals of Americn Art
1977
Sheldon, George William
176 pages
American Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings (A Catalogue to 1923)
1976
Flower, Dean/Francis Murphy
119 pages
American Expatriate Painters of the Late Nineteenth Century (The Dayton Art Institute) (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Quick, Michael
158 pages (color)
The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976
Samuels, Peggy and Harold
549 pages
Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set) (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Naylor, Maria
1,075 pages
Biographical Sketches of American Artists
1972
Earle, Helen L
370 pages
American Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
1966
Los Angeles County Museum
143 pages (color)
The Civil War A Centenial Exhibition of Eyewitness Drawings (Exhibition catalog)
1961
National Gallery of Art
153 pages
The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957
Groce, George; David Wallace
759 pages
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 pages
Artists and Illustrators- Old West 1850-1900
1953
Taft, Robert
400 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One
1932
Hartmann, Sadekichi
363 pages
The History and Ideals of American Art
1931
Neuhaus, Eugen
444 pages
American Pictures & their Painters
1921
Bryant, Lorinda Munson
307 pages
Official Catalogue of Exhibitors Department B, Art (Exhibition catalog)