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1897 Gauting, Bavaria - 1985 Cody, Wyoming. Known for: Western illustration, frontier painting.
Born in Gauting, Bavaria, Nick Eggenhofer became a painter of the romance of the American West with its cowboys and Indians. He has a reputation for historical accuracy from careful research and also... Read full biography
Born in Gauting, Bavaria, Nick Eggenhofer became a painter of the romance of the American West with its cowboys and Indians. He has a reputation for historical accuracy from careful research and also as an authority about frontier western transportation. He was first exposed to the lore of the... Read full biography
Born in Gauting, Bavaria, Nick Eggenhofer became a painter of the romance of the American West with its cowboys and Indians. He has a reputation for historical accuracy from careful research and also as an authority about frontier western transportation. He was first exposed to the lore of the American West by hearing about Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Germany from older relatives who had seen performances. American western movies continued to stir the interest. In 1913, at the age of... Read full biography
Born in Gauting, Bavaria, Nick Eggenhofer became a painter of the romance of the American West with its cowboys and Indians. He has a reputation for historical accuracy from careful research and also as an authority about frontier western transportation. He was first exposed to the lore of the American West by hearing about Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Germany from older relatives who had seen performances. American western movies continued to stir the interest. In 1913, at the age of sixteen, he came to America with his family from Germany, and three years later he enrolled in night art classes at Cooper Union in New York, something he did for four years. During the day he studied lithography at the American Lithography Company, a... Read full biography
Born in Gauting, Bavaria, Nick Eggenhofer became a painter of the romance of the American West with its cowboys and Indians. He has a reputation for historical accuracy from careful research and also as an authority about frontier western transportation. He was first exposed to the lore of the American West by hearing about Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Germany from older relatives who had seen performances. American western movies continued to stir the interest. In 1913, at the age of sixteen, he came to America with his family from Germany, and three years later he enrolled in night art classes at Cooper Union in New York, something he did for four years. During the day he studied lithography at the American Lithography Company, a place that trained many successful artists. He established an illustration studio in New Jersey and made a living as a co... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Advertising Art
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Cowboys
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Horses: Equestrian Genre, in Landscape and/or Portraits
- •Indians, Native Americans
- •Landscape with Cattle, Sheep or Other Farm Animals
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Mountain Men, Trappers
- •National Parks and/or State Parks
- •North American/Canadian Frontier, Pioneers
- •Snowscene, Winter Landscape
- •Western Art: Cowboys, Indians, Horses, Ranch Scenes
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •New Mexico Before 1940
- •Yellowstone National Park
Art Association
- •National Academy of Western Artists
- •Society of Illustrators-
Art School
- •Cooper Union Art School, Cooper School of Design, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •C. R. Smith Collection-Western
- •Harmsen Western Art Collection
Added Description
- •Commercial Art and Design
- •Genre Specialty
- •Horse Subject Specialty
- •Illustration Specialty
- •Pulp Fiction Illustrator
- •Western Subject Specialty
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Cowboy Artists of America-
- •Society of Illustrators
Exhibition of Museum
- •Charles Russell Art Show/Auction/ and/or Museum