Carl Kohler

Carl Kohler, a talented young artist of San Francisco, was born in 1857, in Austria, where he attended school during his boyhood.  Having a fondness for drawing he began taking lessons, and at an early age went to Munich and entered the art academy at that place.  He also studied in Paris, and in 1886 he went to Australia, where his ability and genius attracted marked attention.  He was awarded the commission for painting four pictures of the "Melbourne Cup," the greatest racing event and holiday of the Australian colonies, and from these paintings engravings were made in Paris by Gonpil at enormous expense.  Mr. Kohler also received the commission to paint the Pink and White Terraces of New Zealand, and in this was most successful, securing the best production of these most noted wonders of nature in the Southern Hemisphere.  He remained in Australia until 1890, when he came to San Francisco and opened a studio, where he devotes much time to figure painting.  He came here to study and reproduce the geysers and volcanic eruptions in this state and in the Yellowstone Park.

 

Transcribed 10-16-04  Marilyn R. Pankey