Henry Mosler (1841 - 1920)

Henry Mosler

Henry Mosler was a German-born painter who documented American life, including colonial themes, Civil War illustrations, and portraits of men and women of society. Henry was apprenticed to a wood engraver, while still in his early teens, and also was taught the basics of painting by an amateur landscape painter, George Kerr. After studying drawing by himself, Mosler became a draughtsman for a comic paper, the Omnibus (Cincinnati), in 1855. In 1862–63, during the American Civil War, served as an art correspondent of Harper's Weekly. He was an aide-de-camp with the army of Ohio from 1861 to 1863, and published 34 drawings in Harper's, 18 of them depicting the Kentucky and Ohio Campaign in 1862. He also did portraits of several generals. In 1894 he moved his family to New York, opening a studio in Carnegie Hall. He served as an associate in the National Academy of Design, and continued painting well into the 20th century.

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Date and place of birt:	6 june 1841, Opawica, Poland
Date and place of death:	21 april 1920, New York City, USA
Nationality:	Poland, USA
Period of activity:	XIX, XX century
Specialization:	Artist, Draftsman, Genre painter, Illustrator, Landscape painter, Painter, Portraitist
Genre:	Genre art, Landscape painting, Portrait, Rural landscape, Still life
Art style:	Realism