Hermann Ottomar Herzog

Hermann Ottomar Herzog ( * November 15, 1832 in Bremen, † February 6, 1932 in Philadelphia ) was a German landscape painter.

Life

Hermann Herzog visited Ottomar 1849, the Academy in Dusseldorf, where he trained under Johann Wilhelm Schirmer. Later he made multiple study tours to Norway, Switzerland, Italy and the Pyrenees and brought from all these countries, most from Norway, numerous mountain ranges of masterful drawing and appealing color, if not exactly poetic conception. Among the best are: The Wrestling Festival in Unspunnen in Switzerland ( 1862), also Norwegian Fjord, Wetterhorn, Alpenglow, The Lauterbrunnen valley, Norwegian Waterfall. From 1869 on he made ​​in North America Travel and borrowed some motifs from the Yosemitetal in California. Until his death he lived in Philadelphia. His work is sometimes attributed to the Hudson River School.

Herzog, who would have been almost a hundred years old, has left about 1000 paintings.