Frank Enders was an American

United States

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 painter and etcher.

Biography

Enders was born as son of a saloon

Bar (establishment)

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 owner in German quarter of Milwaukee. He was trained by Henry Vianden

Henry Vianden

Heinrich Vianden, better known as Henry Vianden , was a German American, lithographer and engraver. He was nicked „The Bear“ by his friends and is often considered as "father of Wisconsin art".- Biography :Vianden was born in Poppelsdorf, today a quarter of Bonn...

, and worked for him as a sign-painter. According to Hannah Heidi Levy's Famous Wisconsin Artists and Architects Enders worked in the shop of Henry Baumgaertner. At age 19 Enders traveled to Munich

Munich

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, Germany where he studied from 1879 to 1884 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts with Alois Gabl and Wilhelm von Lindenschmit

Wilhelm Lindenschmit the Younger

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, especially history painting

History painting

History painting is a genre in painting defined by subject matter rather than an artistic style, depicting a moment in a narrative story, rather than a static subject such as a portrait...

, genre works and landscape painting. Back in Milwaukee, he founded a studio at 55 Oneida Street. Later he was director of the art gallery of exhibition building in Milwaukee.

Death

The death of Frank Enders was published in the Eau Claire Leader newspaper on July 1, 1921. The death notice is dated June 29 and stated that Ender "belonged to the original artists colony established in the 'nineties'."

External links

• Frank Enders, Museum of Wisconsin Art