Paul Emmert (1826–1867), who is also known as Paul Emert, was an artist born near

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in 1826. He immigrated to New York City at age 19, where he rapidly became an established artist. He joined the

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to California in 1849. The following year he exhibited a

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of the gold mining activities in Brooklyn, before making his second trip to California late in 1850. While in California, he operated the Bear Hotel in Sacramento and a theater in San Francisco. He exhibited his

in San Francisco and other communities. In 1853, he moved to Hawaii, and opened a print shop in Honolulu, where he made prints after his own drawings of local landmarks. He moved to

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and farmed a

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where he resided until his death in 1867. The

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(Fort Worth, Texas), the Hawaii Historical Society and the

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are among the public collections holding works by Paul Emmert.Smithsonian American Art Museum, Art Inventories Catalog
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References

* Forbes, David W., "Encounters with Paradise: Views of Hawaii and its People, 1778–1941", Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1992, 93–140. * Severson, Don R., ''Finding Paradise: Island Art in Private Collections'', University of Hawaii Press, 2002, pp. 77–8, 132, 139–41, 182.

External links

Paul Emmert in AskArt.com

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Art Inventories Catalog

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Emmert, Paul 19th-century American painters American male painters Artists from Hawaii 19th-century Swiss painters 19th-century American male artists Swiss male painters 1826 births 1867 deaths 19th-century Swiss male artists