August Lohr (1843 - 1919) Germany
Watercolor on Paper
Measure 6 1/4"in H x 9 1/2"in W and 12 3/4"in H x 16"in W with frame

Known for: Landscape painting, panorama
Biography: At the end of April 1885, five artists crossed the Atlantic with the steamer "Fulda" and came to Milwaukee. August Lohr from Munich, Friedrich Wilhelm Heine and Berhard Schneider from Dresden, and Hermann von Michalowski and Franz Rohrbeck from Berlin. Lohr had his family and maid with him, Heine left his family in Dresden, the others were bachelors. There was also a male model Klotzer. This group arrived in Milwaukee to paint for the American Panorama Company of William Wehner huge circular canvasses with scenes from the Civil war and later of religious motifs. Nobody of them moved back to Europe again and they shared the fate of so many immigrant artists. They remained in limbo for decades, until some scholars became interested. Here in Wisconsin it was primarily the merit of Peter C. Merrill to write a profound compendium about these German-American artists and to collect the information left from that time, and it was the merit of the Museum of Wisconsin Art under the leadership of Tom Lidtke to collect the works of this lost generation. But there remained still a big black hole about what happened exactly here in Milwaukee, after those five artists I already named arrived in 1885. The artists' biographies are falling short and often hide any participation in this Panorama business, as for a long time these huge paintings weren't taken seriously and were just seen as commercial art unworthy of a true artist. This misjudgment has changed in the last years, and the interest what happened in Milwaukee has grown .

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