Hermann Herzog. Hermann Ottomar Herzog was a prominent nineteenth-and early twentieth-century European and American artist, primarily known for his landscapes.
He is associated with the Dusseldorf School and Hudson River School of painting. He almost always signed his work H. Herzog; as a result of this and the Americanization of spelling Herman, his first name is spelled both Herman and Hermann in various sources.
Hermann, however, is the way he signed his name on documents. Herzog was born in Bremen, Germany and entered the Düsseldorf Academy at age seventeen, studying in the classroom with several academy artists, such as J.W.
Schirmer and Rudolph Wiegmann, and taking private lessons with Andreas Achenbach, C. F. Lessing, and the Norwegian artist, Hans Gude. After traveling and painting in Norway, he achieved early commercial success.
Patrons included royalty and nobility throughout Europe. In 1871 Herzog immigrated to the U.S., declaring his intent for naturalization at the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas on August 14 of that year. After traveling extensively throughout the US, including California in 1873 and in Mexico, and becoming an American citizen in 1876, he returned to Germany, brought his family back with him in 1877, and settled permanently in West Philadelphia Philadelphia in the United States. Herzog received an award at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition for excell