1. Albert Herter was an American painter, illustrator, muralist, and interior designer.
26 Facts About Albert Herter
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Albert Herter was born in New York City, studied at the Art Students League with James Carroll Beckwith, then in Paris with Jean-Paul Laurens and Fernand Cormon.
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Albert Herter came from an artistic family; his father, Christian Herter, had co-founded Herter Brothers, a prominent New York interior design and furnishings firm.
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Herter Brothers closed in 1906, and Albert founded Herter Looms in 1909, a tapestry and textile design-and-manufacturing firm that was, in a sense, successor to his father's firm.
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Albert Herter's mother built a mansion, "El Mirasol," in Santa Barbara, California, where the family spent the winters.
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Adele Albert Herter was a founding member of New York City's Cosmopolitan Club, and is remembered as a painter of still lifes and "society" portraits.
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Albert Herter had an extraordinary early career, at age 19 receiving an honorable mention at the Paris Salon, and winning prizes from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the American Watercolor Society, and elsewhere.
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Albert Herter was awarded medals at the 1895 Atlanta Exposition, the 1897 Nashville Exposition, the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle, and the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo.
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Albert Herter painted covers for the Ladies' Home Journal and other magazines, and illustrated a number of books.
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In 1909, Albert Herter was commissioned by the Daughters of the American Revolution to create what was intended to be the world's largest painted theater curtain, for the Denver Auditorium.
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Albert Herter executed murals for buildings such as the Massachusetts Statehouse, the Wisconsin State Capitol, the Los Angeles Public Library, and the National Academy of Sciences.
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Albert Herter's best-known work, Le Depart des poilus, aout 1914, is a mural in the Gare de Paris-Est railroad station in Paris.
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Albert Herter channeled his grief into this mural, which depicts soldiers leaving for war from that same railroad station.
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The young man at center with his arms in the air is a portrait of Everit, the woman in white at far left is a portrait of Adele Albert Herter, and the man at far right with the bouquet of flowers is a self-portrait.
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Albert Herter donated the mural to the People of France in 1926.
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Albert Herter designed Spanish Colonial Revival interiors for the Loews Warfield Theatre in San Francisco, including a mural of Spanish-style dancers above the proscenium.
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Albert Herter designed Byzantine Revival interiors for Broadway's Martin Beck Theatre in New York City, which was renamed the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in 2003.
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Mr Albert Herter's idea was to get, if possible, the effect of a house in Sicily, and so he built the house of pinkish yellow stucco and gave it a copper roof.
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Albert Herter donated 4 acres of "The Creeks" to the Nature Conservancy in 1975.
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Adele and Albert Herter spent a good deal of their time in California at "El Mirasol", his mother's estate in Santa Barbara, bought in 1904.
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In 1920, Herter sold the property to Frederick C Clift, the hotelier and attorney from the Sierras.
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Albert Herter wrote and produced a play called The Gift of Eternal Life, An Indo-Persian Legend.
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Albert Herter designed the sets and costumes, and played the part of the King.
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Albert Herter was elected an associate member of the National Academy of Design in 1906, and became a full Academician in 1943.
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Albert Herter was a member of the Society of American Artists, the American Watercolor Society, the New York Water Color Club, the Society of Mural Painters, and the Century Club.
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Albert Herter was made a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor in 1923.