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Ad Code: 4
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from Auction House Records.
Mountain landscape with rocky river canyon
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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A landscape painter, he was born in Germany in 1846. Koch studied to be a lawyer in Munich before immigrating to Philadelphia. After opting for an art career, he worked for a firm that made watercolor portraits. During the Civil War he contributed battle sketches to eastern newspapers. During this period he returned to Europe to study art in Munich, Dresden and Paris.
After coming to California in 1886 on an assignment to paint Yosemite, he elected to remain. Upon (showing 500 of 740 characters). |
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