Emil Holzhauer ( 1887 - 1986) Oil on canvas, signed lower right, measures 20" x 24" w/f 23" x 27"Born in Schwabisch-Gmund, Germany, Emil Holzhauer became an avant-garde painter whose work is characterized by heavy lines filled with color and with rhythmic, harmonic space. His primary mediums were watercolor, oil, and casein, and in 1930, he earned the Logan Medal and Purchase prize at the 10th International Watercolor Exhibition in Chicago for his portrait, "Patricia." His work was heavily influenced by scenes from the South, and by the rising nationalism in the United States.In Germany, he apprenticed in a silver and metalware factory where he learned design and modeling, and in the evenings, he studied art at the Staatliche Werkkunst Schule.He arrived in New York in 1906 and with fellow students Edward Hopper, George Bellows, and Rockwell Kent, studied art with Robert Henri. The 1913 Armory Show combined with Henri's teaching led Holzhauer to adopt modernist elements of Expressionism, Fauvism and Social Realism. He was especially influenced by the expressive images of Cezanne, and the stylistic surprising canvases of Van Gogh.He also taught art at the Chicago Art Institute from 1921 to 1942 and Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia from 1942 to 1953, and his years in Georgia were especially influential on his work. In 1953, he retired to Niceville, Florida where he taught until 1972

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