Henry Mosler

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Henry Mosler , photo 1860

Henry Mosler (born June 6, 1841 in Tropplowitz , Province of Silesia ; died April 21, 1920 in New York ) was an American painter , wood cutter, and illustrator , who was particularly famous for his genre pictures and portraits as well as for his paintings and illustrations American Civil War is known.

Life

The Return of the Prodigal Son (Le Retour) , 1879
On the Wedding Morning (The Bridal Decoration) , 1883

Mosler and his family emigrated to New York in 1849. His father Gustav Mosler (1816–1874) was a lithographer . In 1851 the family moved to Cincinnati ( Ohio ). Mosler first trained in Cincinnati, where he was a student of the genre painter James Henry Beard . Then he went to New York. Around 1861 he became a correspondent for Harper's Weekly magazine .

During the Civil War, Mosler, like most Jews from the northern states , was an ardent supporter of the Union. The magazine Harper's Weekly at the time was a widely read, important voice of the Union forces. Between 1861 and 1863 Mosler contributed 34 drawings to the subject. In addition, he created portraits of some Union generals.

From 1863 to 1866 he studied at the Düsseldorf Academy with Heinrich Mücke and Albert Kindler . He then settled in Paris , where he was a student of Ernest Hébert for six months . After returning to Cincinnati in the meantime, where he was one of the founders of the Associated Artists of Cincinnati in 1867 and worked temporarily as a teacher at the McMicken School of Design , he traveled to Paris again in 1874. Then he went to Munich , where from 1876 he studied with Carl Theodor von Piloty and Alexander Wagner at the art academy . From 1877 he lived in France again. There he received numerous awards; Among other things, he became a Knight of the Legion of Honor and a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His painting The Return of the Prodigal Son was the first painting by an American painter to be purchased for the picture gallery of the Palais du Luxembourg .

In 1869 he married Sara Cahn (1849–1903), who was born in Bavaria, in Cincinnati. Her son Gustave Henry Mosler (1875–1906), born in Munich, was also a painter. In 1894 he moved with his family to New York, where he worked as a painter well into the twentieth century. The National Academy of Design elected Mosler as an associate member in 1895 .

He died of a heart attack at the age of 78.

Mosler's works can be found in numerous museums, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum , the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and various New York museums. Many of his genre paintings show the narrative structure of the Düsseldorf School of Painting , such as the painting Just Moved from 1870 or the painting Am Hochzeitsmorgen (The Bridal Decoration) from 1883 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Henry Mosler  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jewish Lexicon .
  2. ↑ General Artist Lexicon, Volume 28 (Mj – My), p. 241 f.
  3. ↑ Past Academicians "M": Mosler, Henry ANA 1895 ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website in the nationalacademy.org portal , accessed on July 4, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalacademy.org
  4. ↑ Just Moved , website of the Metropolitan Museum of Art ( Heilbrunn Timelife of Art History , September 2009), accessed on the metmuseum.org portal on December 12, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Mosler, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter, wood cutter, and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Opavice
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1920
Place of death New York City