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He worked at the W.J. Morgan Lithograph Company in Cleveland, designing circus posters, and also during this period studied in Karlsruhe, Germany at the Art Academy under the animal painter, Zugel. The list of Keller’s exhibition activities is impressive. He also had a piece on display at the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco and at the New York World’s Fair that year as well.
Keller also attended the Cincinnati Fine Arts Academy and the Art Students League in New York.
Keller was elected to membership in Union Internationale des Beaux-Arts et des Lettres, Paris in 1913, elected to life membership in the Cleveland Society of Artists in 1930, and elected to the National Academy of Design in 1939.
He exhibited in 1910 in the Carnegie International, and exhibited at the Carnegie Institute over many years beginning in 1914.
In 1908, he gave up his position at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh but retained his position at the Cleveland Institute of Art until his retirement in 1945. The painter died in San Diego, on August 3rd, 1949
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April 3, 1869-August 3, 1949 Henry George Keller was an Cleveland painter, lithographer, and educator best known for his watercolor paintings.
Contents: Early Life and Education | Teaching | Featured Works | The Cleveland School | References
Early Life and Education
Henry George Keller was born at sea off Nova Scotia to German-born parents on their way to Cleveland, where he spent his life.
In the summer he offered art colony-style workshops in Berlin Heights, Ohio, teaching young painters such as Charles Burchfield, James Kulhanek, Paul Travis, August Biehle, and Frank Wilcox.
Featured Works
While the Virtual Discovery Digital Gallery does not currently contain any of Keller’s watercolors, one line etching print is included, as well as a number of his gesture drawings, a quick form of sketching used to rapidly capture the movement and pose of the subject.
These quick sketches have an endearing, almost cartoonish quality.
After the death of his wife in 1948, Keller moved San Diego, California to be near their son. Keller then completed his art instruction at the Munich Academy with Heinrich Johann Zügel. He attended the School of Design for Women, later called The Cleveland Institute of Art, where he would teach painting and drawing for over forty years, and took a key role in helping Cleveland’s development as an important watercolor center.
There he became friends with well-known American artist Walt Kuhn.
After returning to America, Keller immediately found a job at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and later the Cleveland School of Art, where he taught until 1945. He worked quickly, with pure colors and free, fluid brushstrokes. In Germany, Keller studied under the animal painter, Zugel, and won a Silver Medal from the Royal Academy of Bavaria.
His parents were Jacob and Barbara Keller from Klingenmünster. Upon arrival in the United States, the family settled in the vicinity of the city of Cleveland, Ohio. His work is represented in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Harvard Art Museums, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Academy Museum, the Portland Art Museum, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum,.
Keller was especially influenced by artists such as Paul Cezanne and Henri Matisse, and primarily used watercolor to capture impressions of subjects, along with other media such as oil, lithographs, and etchings. That same year he won a Silver Medal for his oil End of the Day from the Royal Academy of Bavaria.
Keller's formal art education began in 1887, when he received special permission to study at the Western Reserve School of Design for Women, which is now the Cleveland Institute of Art. In 1890, he departed for Europe and studied under Hermann Baisch at the Karlsruhe Academy.