Origin: German-American

Born into extreme poverty in Regensburg, Germany in 1882, Fischer escaped to sea and served in a variety of merchant sail and steam vessels. He finally made his way ashore in New York at the turn of the century where he applied as a model and handyman for the well known American illustrator A.B. Frost.…

Born to a doctor's family in Langendorf, Germany, Charles Rosner's childhood included family holidays in the Port of Kolberg. During these visits he developed a fascination for the sea and the vessels which plied its ways. He went on to serve aboard the sailing ships he admired as a youth and accumulated an impressive five…

Born in Bremen, Germany, Pansing became a sailor at age 16. After five years at sea, he settled in Hoboken, New Jersey establishing himself as a marine painter and portraitist in 1865. With excellent draftsmanship he also worked in New York City and Brooklyn as an artist illustrating sheet music and painting names on steamboats.…

George C. Stratemeyer was a resident of Honolulu, and served as the official customs bureau port surveyor for the republic of Hawaii. The republic was formed by a consortium of planters and businessmen in 1894, deposing the Hawaiian monarchy. Sanford B. Dole assumed their presidency, and pushed for annexation by the United States, which officially…

Born in Bremen, Germany, Herzog studied at the Dusseldorf Academy with Johann Wilhelm Schirmer and then with renowned Norwegian landscape painter Hans Gude. He then became Gude’s apprentice, painting numerous locations in Western Europe and Norway known for their beauty and grandeur. Herzog soon attracted the attention of the European and Russian nobility who became…

Theodore lux Feininger was a skilled painter, writer and teacher who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1910. He first studied painting in Germany during the 1920’s under Paul Klee and Oskar Schlemmer. He emigrated to this country in the 1930’s holding his first U.S. exhibition at the Carnegie Institute in 1932, and at New…