Robert Koehler

Robert Koehler (November 28, 1850 - April 23, 1917) was a German born painter and art teacher who spent most of his career in the United States of America.

Portrait of Alvina Roosen by Robert Koehler, c. 1900Koehler was born in Hamburg; his family spelled their name Kohler until they moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in Robert's childhood. Koehler studied art from Henry Vianden and aprenticed himself to a lithography firm. After some time working as a lithographer in New York City, Koehler went to Munich to study fine art at the Royal Academy in 1873. Koehler's work while in Munich won him silver and bronze awards from the Academy, and Bavaria's Cross of the Order of St. Michael. Koehler then set himself up as head of a private art school; pupils included Alfons Mucha.

In 1892 Robert Koehler returned to New York City to work as a portrait artist. The following year he moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, accepting an offer to be the director of the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts. Koehler was also involved with the establishment of Minneapolis' Museum of Fine Art.

Koehler continued working in Minneapolis, painting portraits and landscapes, teaching painting, and arranging exhibitions, until his sudden death from a heart attack at age 66.

The paintings are the excellent portrayal of the events and scenes that we see around us. The painters are the best cameras of the world. They reproduce many different types of pictures. They even draw imaginary pictures that do not exist in this world. We tend to use both thinned oil paints and dense oil paints. Masterpieces can be dyed more than once, but each time it may be different from the existing paintings.h

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