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William Hahn

William (Carl Wilhelm) Hahn (1829 - 1887) was active/lived in California / Germany.  William Hahn is known for Genre-views, portrait, still life, landscape painting.

Born in Ebersbach, Saxony, Germany on Jan. 7, 1829.  At age 14 Hahn entered the Royal Academy of Art in Dresden where he studied for five years under Julius Huebner and continued for two more years at the Düsseldorf Academy.  He received gold and silver medals from the Dresden Gallery.  Some of his first watercolors were purchased by the King of Saxony and placed in the Nat'l Gallery in Düsseldorf.  His paintings were exhibited in Boston, New York, and San Francisco including the California Art Union of 1865. 

In 1869 Èahn met artist Wm Keith in Düsseldorf and in 1871 came with him to Boston where the two artists shared a studio.  In 1872  the two artists came to San Francisco and established a studio in the Mercantile Library Bldg.  Hahn's sketching trips took him to the Sierra Nevada, Yosemite, Napa Valley, Russian River, and southern California.  By 1876 he was a resident of the Bohemian Club and director of the San Francisco Art

Source: Edan Hughes, author of the book "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
California State Library (Sacramento); City Directory; Oakland Museum; San Francisco Call, 7-7-1887 (obit).

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