Henry Mosler United States

United States

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 artist

Artist

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, was born in Tropplowitz

Opawica

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, Silesia (now in Poland, on the Czech border) and moved with his family to New York when he was 8. The family relocated to Cincinnati, the site of a substantial German-Jewish community, when Henry was about ten years old.

Studying drawing by himself, he became a draughtsman for a comic paper, the Omnibus (Cincinnati), in 1855; in 1859-1861 he studied under James Henry Beard

James Henry Beard

James Henry Beard was an American Painter who specialized in the genre of portraits. Portraits consist of a sculpture, painting, or photograph representing a person, in which the facial expressions are dominant...

, and in 1862-63, during the Civil War

American Civil War

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, was an art correspondent of Harper's Weekly

Harper's Weekly

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. In 1863 he went to Düsseldorf

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, where for almost three years he was at the Royal Academy schools; he subsequently went to Paris

Paris

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, where he studied for a short time under Ernest Hébert.

His "Le Retour," from the Paris Salon of 1879, was the first American picture ever bought for the Luxembourg

Luxembourg Palace

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. He received a silver medal in Paris 1889, and gold medals at Paris, 1888, and Vienna, 1893. Examples of his work are in the Witchita Art Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Huntington Library in California, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, Sydney Art Museum, NSW, the Cincinnati Art Museum

Cincinnati Art Museum

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, Richmond Art Museum

Richmond Art Museum

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 and the art museums of Springfield, Mass.

Springfield, Massachusetts

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, and various museums in New York.

His son, Gustave Henry Mosler

Gustave Henry Mosler

Gustave Henry Mosler , was a United States painter.He was a pupil of his father and of Léon Bonnat, exhibited at the Salon in Paris, receiving a medal for his "De Profundis" in 1891; his portrait of Governor JW Stewart is in the State House, Montpelier, Vermont, and his "Empty Cradle" is in the...

 was also an artist. His granddaughter, Audrey Skirball-Kenis

Audrey Skirball-Kenis

Audrey Skirball-Kenis was a noted American philanthropist.-Early years:Audrey Skirball-Kenis was born Audrey Marx in Alabama in 1915, daughter of Otto Marx, Sr., and Agnes Mosler Marx...

 (née Marks) was a philanthropist in Los Angeles, and founder of the Skirball Cultural Center

Skirball Cultural Center

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