Hermann Herzog

      1832-1932

      A Brief Biography

Hermann Herzog was born in Dusseldorf, Germany in 1832. He studied under two fine European artists, Hans Gude and J.W. Schirmer, and painted in Germany, Norway, Switzerland and Holland before coming to the United States in the 1860's.  By that time Herzog had established a reputation as a fine artist, his patrons including Queen Victoria and Grand Duke Alexander of Russia.

Although he settled in Pennsylvania, he traveled to Florida, Maine California, Mexico, and other North American sites and painted primarily landscapes wherever he went.

He exhibited at the National Academy of Design in New York, at the Pennsyvlania  Academy of the Fine Arts, from 1863 -1869, and in 1876 exhibited at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, as well as other American venues of the 19th century where he was well received by the newspapers of the day.

Herzog painted one thousand paintings for which he kept a numerical list. He died in 1932 at the age of 100.

Painting of Florida with heron by Hermann Herzog, signed H. Herzog.