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George Hetzel

George Hetzel (1826 - 1899) was active/lived in Pennsylvania / Germany.  George Hetzel is known for Fruit still life, landscape, and portrait painting.

Realistic painter George Hetzel is considered one of Pennsylvania's most significant landscape, portrait, and still-life painters of the nineteenth century.

He was born in Hangviller, a small village in the province of Alsace, France, in 1826. Hetzels father decided that America offered unparalleled opportunities for a better life, however, and when George was two years of age, his family left Hangviller for the New World. Their travels took them from the port of Baltimore to their final destination, a small farm in Allegheny City, now the North Side of Pittsburgh.

Hetzel attended public school in Allegheny City and was later apprenticed to a house and sign painter. Approximately four years later he was accepted as an apprentice by a local artisan for whom he decorated cabins and public rooms on riverboats and painted murals in a number of Pittsburgh saloons.
Hetzel's father realized that his son possessed an outstanding artistic talent. He decided George should fur   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 10358 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about George Hetzel

   Publications  Book References:  31
Magazine References:  4

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4 Miscellaneous Magazine References for George Hetzel
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Still-Life Painting in Southwestern August 2001 O'Toole, Judith Hansen Yes
American Art Review George Hetzel:Centennial Exhibition October 1999 Chew, Paul A Yes
American Art Review William & Abigail Gerdts Collection April 1998 Gerdts, William H Yes
American Art Review West Virginia Vistas & Visionaries August 1995 Cuthbert, John A Yes
31 Book References for George Hetzel
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2003 Ong, John Doyle (Intro) Art at the Residence of the Ambassador of the United States of America to the Kingdom of Norway: Art in Embassies Program 52 Yes
2000 Cuthbert, John A. Early Art and Artists in West Virginia 301 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1997 Driscoll, John Paul All That Is Glorious Around Us Hudson River School/A Loan Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)
144 Yes
1996 Strueber, Michael (Director) Selections From the Permanent Collection: Southern Alleghenies 118 Yes
1993 Carr, Carolyn K Revisiting the White City American Art at the 1893 World's Fair
(Exhibition catalog)
408 Yes
1992 Bolger, Doreen; Marc Simpson; John Wilmerding William M Harnett (exhibition several artists)
(Exhibition catalog)
333 Yes
1992 Strazdes, Diana American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art 511 Yes
1991 Sullivan, Mark W The Hudson River School An Annotated Bibliography 225 No
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two) 396 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One) 421 Yes
1989 Chew, Paul Southwestern Pennsylvania Painters Collection Westmorland Museum of Art 138 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)
612 No
1989 Minks, Louise The Hudson River School The Landscape Art (of 25 artists) 112 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)
472 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Howat, John K American Paradise World of the Hudson River School
(Exhibition catalog)
346 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1983 Wright, R Lewis Artists in Virginia Before 1900: An Annotated Checklist 200 No
1982 Koke, Richard J American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols) 1243 No
1981 Schwarz-Philadelphia American Paintings
(Exhibition catalog)
23 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1977 Barter, Judith; Lynn E Springer Currents of Expansion Painting in the Midwest, 1820-1940
(Exhibition catalog)
189 No
1976 Brindle, John V/Sally Secrest American Cornucopia 19th Century Still Lifes and Studies
(Exhibition catalog)
48 Yes
1973 Carnegie Institute Catalogue of Painting Collection Museum of Art 196 Yes
1973 Naylor, Maria Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
(Exhibition catalog)
1075 No
1957 Groce, George; David Wallace The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 759 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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