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Osthaus, Edmund |
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From newspaper article: Edmund H. Osthaus was born in Germany in 1858. He studied at the royal academy of arts at Dusseldorf, a pupil of Christian Johann Kroener. He came to America with his brother Carl about 1885 and settled in Oshkosh, WI. Here he painted scenes around the country. Osthaus's father, Henry, came to Mexico with its last emperor Maximilian, and after the execution of the monarch fled to the United States and settled in Oshkosh. When the Toledo academy of fine arts was founded, Edmund was asked to take charge of the art school. Later he became a director of the academy. Examples of his work are to be found in many parts of the country, even some of his earlier paintings may be found in several Oshkosh homes. He died in his hunting lodge in Marianna Jackson county in Florida in 1928. His sister, Mrs. Mary Osthaus Griffith, was also an artist and visited in this city several years ago. PUBLICATIONS: Publication:Newspaper article: Painting of Boy and His Dogs by Edmund Osthaus is Presented as Gift to Museum by Mrs. Herman Derksen.{12/1/43 Edmund Henry Osthaus was born on August 5, 1858 in Hildesheim, Hanover, the son of Henry O. Osthaus. He studied at the Royal Academy in Düsseldorf with Andreas Muller, Peter Jansen, E. von Gebhardt, Ernst Deger, and Christian Kroner. It wasn’t until 1883 that Osthaus joined his family in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, that he furthered his artistic career and developed a subject matter that he would become infamous for. He was married in Milwaukee, WI on July 27, 1892 to Charlotte M. Becker. While working at the Toledo Academy of Fine Arts in Ohio, Osthaus began focusing his subject matter on hunting scenes, primarily of the sporting dogs. From 1886 until 1893 Osthaus was the principal at the Academy, continually improving on his technique and enjoying his other passions, hunting and fishing. Because of his great interest in both hunting and sporting dogs, Osthaus became one of the founding members of the National Field Trial Association in the 1890’s. In the 1900 US Census he is listed as a widower. He married Isabel Carleton in Port Huron, MI in 1903 and they had one son, Franz Osthaus, born about 1904. Osthaus was well recognized around the country, building a studio in Los Angeles in 1911, as well as homes in Ohio and New Jersey and a hunting lodge in Marianna, Florida. He created a series of postcards, prints, and calendar pictures for DuPont. His work was also commissioned by such magnates as the Vanderbilts and Morgans who admired his large-scale scenes of life-like animals at work and at play. Osthaus passed away on January 30, 1928 at his hunting lodge in Marianna, Florida. His works have been shown in the Toledo Museum of Art, as well as the Art Institute of Chicago and the Butler Institute of American Art. |
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According to an October 26, 1883 article in the Oshkosh Daily Northwestern, J.F. Waldo, Edmund Osthaus, and Miss Osrhaus "occupy the other half of the floor [of Dichmann's New Building] as a studio and art, where they are at work on portraits and paintings and have an exhibition of works of art in both oil and crayon." The Dichmann building was a William Waters structure. |
