Herman Hartwich

Herman Hartwich (or Hartwick, July 8, 1853 – March 8, 1926) was a German-American landscape and genre painter.

Young Italian girl in a loggia hanging up laundry

Resting in a sunlit garden

Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon called him a figure painter; painter; landscape painter; animal painter. Herringshaw's American Blue Book of Biography mentions him as a painter and engraver.

Hartwich, who was born, in New York City, studied painting from 1881 to 1885 at Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. His work appears in the 1883, 1888, 1889, 1890, and 1891 catalogs of art exhibitions in Munich Glass Palace. In 1892, he wone a prize in Paris. He returned to New York in 1894, but eventually settled in Munich sometime before his death in 1926.

References

• Emmanuel Bénézit: Dictionary of Artists 2006 ISBN 0-8150-0470-2
• Artnet Gallery
• Smithsonian American Art Museum