Perham Wilhelm Nahl

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Perham Wilhelm Nahl - 1915, Typhoon

Perham Wilhelm Nahl also Perham W. Nahl or Perham Nahl (born January 11, 1869 in San Francisco , California , USA ; † 1935 in Berkeley , California, USA) was an American engraver , painter , lithographer and illustrator of the late 19th century. and the early 20th century to 1935 as well as teacher at an art school. He came from the artist family Nahl and was the son of Hugo Wilhelm Arthur Nahl (* 1833; † 1889), the younger of the two Nahl Brothers .

Perham Wilhelm Nahl - 1913, Mantón de Manila

Life

Perham began his art studies with his father Arthur and his uncle Charles Christian Nahl and continued it from 1899-1906 at the Mark Hopkins Institute . When the earthquake and the great fire destroyed most of San Francisco in 1906, he went to Europe and studied in Paris and Munich ( Heymann Academy). Perham Nahl won many prizes for his artistic work. After his return to California in 1907 he taught art technology and anatomy at the University of California and for 20 years at the California College of the Arts , which he himself co-founded.

Works

The 13th Labor of Hercules exhibition poster of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition by Perham Wilhelm Nahl in 1915

Perham Wilhelm Nahl became world-famous in 1915 for his award-winning painting The Thirteenth Labor of Hercules , which served as the official exhibition poster for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition on the 10th anniversary of the construction of the Panama Canal . The heroic depiction appeared on city maps, book covers, exhibition catalogs and was enormously popular thanks to worldwide advertising. The mythological Hercules symbolizes the builders of the canal by pushing the two American continents apart with all his might for the new waterway.

The Isthmus of Panama at the height of the Chagres River , painted by Charles Christian Nahl in 1850 on the adventurous journey to California

The Nahl family who immigrated to America (father, uncle and other relatives and friend Frederick August Wenderoth ) had managed the adventurous passage across the Isthmus of Panama on their way from New York to the Californian gold fields . Uncle Charles captured dangerous scenes in oil paintings.

Another early area of ​​interest Perham Nahl shows a patent in the aeronautical field.

Web links

Commons : Perham Wilhelm Nahl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see weblink biography Perham Wilhelm Nahl at AskArt
  2. ↑ see web link Quent Cordair: The 13th Labor of Hercules
  3. ↑ see web link John D. Barry: The Panama Pacific International Exposition - Illustrations, The 13th Labor of Hercules
  4. ↑ see web link US Patent Office: Perham W. Nahl - Navigable Air Ship
  5. ↑ Nahls US Patent 439421, 1890 page at USPTO
  6. ↑ Nahls German Patent 57468, 1890 at the Otto Lilienthal Museum page
personal data
SURNAME Nahl, Perham Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nahl, Perham W .; Nahl, Perham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American engraver, painter, lithographer, illustrator, and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco , USA
DATE OF DEATH 1935
Place of death Berkeley , California, USA