Henry Mosler
American, 1841 - 1920
(not assigned)Cincinnati, Ohio
BiographyMosler was born in New York City in 1841, the child of Jewish immigrants, and moved with his parents to Cincinnati in 1851. He studied painting in Cincinnati, Düsseldorf, Paris and Munich. During the American Civil War, Mosler worked as an illustrator for Harper's Weekly. After the war, he primarily painted portraits in Cincinnati. From 1874-1894, he returned to France and set up a studio in Paris, where he painted genre scenes of the Northern French countryside. He exhibited at the National Academy of Design in New York and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in Philadelphia. Mosler died in 1920.Person TypeIndividual
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