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Edward Ertz

Edward Frederick Ertz (1862 - 1954) was active/lived in Louisiana, Illinois / England.  Edward Ertz is known for Wood engraving, illustration, teaching, still-life painting.

Born in Canfield, Illinois, Edward Ertz became a watercolor painter of landscapes, etcher especially noted for wood engraving, illustrator, and teacher with a distinguished career in America, France and England.

As a young man, he studied in Paris with Jules Lefebvre, Benjamin Constant, and Paul Delance, and then went to Chicago for five years to do an engraving apprenticeship.  About 1881, he went to New Orleans where he established a lithography business that was active in Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi.  Among his commissions were mastheads for newspapers and lithographic views for the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition.  A writer for a publication, The Industries of New Orleans, praised his business for having the first routing and ruling machines and wrote that it was "the largest establishment and really the only one of the kind in the south." (Mahe 128)

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