15 Facts About 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 Mosler was born in Tropplowitz, Silesia, Prussia, and moved with his family to New York in 1849, when he was 8 years old.

Henry Mosler was an aide-de-camp with the Army of the Ohio from 1861 to 1863, and published 34 drawings in Harper's, 18 of them depicting the Kentucky and Ohio Campaign in 1862.

In 1863 Henry Mosler went to Dusseldorf, where for almost three years he was at the Royal Academy, and studied under Heinrich Mucke and Albert Kindler; he subsequently went to Paris, where he studied for six months under Ernest Hebert.

Henry Mosler returned to Cincinnati in 1866, where received numerous portrait commissions.

Henry Mosler created the first painting for which he received a significant degree of recognition, The Lost Cause, which he exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1868.

In 1874, Henry Mosler returned to France, having married Sara Cahn of Cincinnati in 1869.

Henry Mosler studied for three years under Carl Theodor von Piloty in Munich, where he won a medal at the Royal Academy.

Henry Mosler received a silver medal at the Salons in Paris 1889, and gold medals at Paris, 1888, and Vienna, 1893.

Henry Mosler served as an associate in the National Academy of Design, and continued painting well into the 20th century.

Henry Mosler died of heart failure at the age of 78.

Henry Mosler's other son, Arthur Rembrandt Mosler, was an engineer who married the famous soprano and voice teacher Estelle Liebling.

Henry Mosler's granddaughter, Audrey Skirball-Kenis, was a philanthropist in Los Angeles and founder of the Skirball Cultural Center.

Henry Mosler's great-grandson, John F McCrindle, was an art collector and patron of artists and writers, founding the Joseph F McCrindle Foundation to award grants to arts, music and social justice organizations.

Henry Mosler's students included Isabelle Davis Seymour, a listed miniature portrait artist of Evanston Illinois, and Wilder M Darling, an artist and teacher based in Toledo.