Bloom Fine Art's Featured Listing this week is
August Lohr Mexico Original Signed Watercolor 1891 Listed 19th C. German Artist.
August Lohr Mexico Original Signed Watercolor 1891 Listed 19th C. German Artist.
August Löhr (GERMAN, 1843-1919 was born in Hallein, near Salzburg, Austria.
In 1887 Lohr accompanied Richard Lorenz to San Francisco to help in the installation of a panorama there. In 1889 the Sentenel reported that he was the manager of a company which was thinking of exhibiting panoramas in Mexico. This was probably the short-lived Milwaukee Panorama Company, for which Lohr was VP in 1890. Although his name appears in the 1890 Milwaukee city directory, he probably left Milwaukee for Mexico in 1890. A painting of the Chapultepec Castle was exhibited at the San Carlos Academy in Mexico City in 1891. In 1899 Lohr was back in San Francisco to exhibit landscapes of Mt. Tamalpais, the Santa Cruz Mountains, and Mexico at the Mechanics Institute Fair. A small watercolor sent by Lohr from Mexico in 1912 indicates that he was still living there at that time.
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