August Henry Nordhausen (American 1919-1993) Oil on board of a nude and a man, signed LL "NORDHAUSE

Item # FA-054

August Henry Nordhausen (American 1919-1993)
Oil on board of a nude and a man, signed LL "NORDHAUSEN", Size: 12" x 16" in original gilt frame with lable on the back reading "Nude at Table, A. Henry Nordhausen" also frame lable from "Newcome-Maclin Co. Picture frame Makers. New York"
Biography from The Columbus Museum Uptown, GA.
August Henry Nordhausen was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1901, the
youngest child of Henry and Katherine Nordhausen who had emigrated from Germany in the late 1880s. After high school Nordhausen spent two years at the New York School of Fine Arts before venturing to Europe in 1922. In Europe he found a number of educational opportunities available to him, and for two and a half years he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Art in Munich with Hugo Von Habermann and Hans Hofmann. Upon returning to the United States, Nordhausen persisted with his vocation in the arts through commercial work and teaching, never forgetting his own academic training. Throughout his career, he continually entered competitions at the National Academy of Design, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and won prizes in many juried exhibitions. After he served in the military during World War II, the GI Bill enabled Nordhausen to receive additional artistic training at the New School for Social Research in New York. By the 1950s he was able to travel extensively due to increased sales of his paintings and the receipt of many portrait commissions. He traveled to Italy, Greece and Scandinavia before finding his way to Columbus,
Georgia. For Nordhausen, Georgia became an area where he received many portrait commissions. As a result, he established a studio in Columbus in 1960 and eventually settled in this community. SOLD Inquire