Nahl, Charles Christian Fire in San Francisco Bay Painting ID:: 19595 new3/Nahl, Charles Christian-959947.jpg
Fire in San Francisco Bay 1856
Oil on canvas
Private collection.
Nahl, Charles Christian Sonntagmorgen bei den Minen Painting ID:: 45250 new16/Nahl, Charles Christian-489299.jpg
Sonntagmorgen bei den Minen mk181
1870
Sacramento
Nahl, Charles Christian and August Wenderoth Painting ID:: 79135 new24/Nahl, Charles Christian-733685.jpg
and August Wenderoth were refugees of the troubles in Germany of 1848. Like thousands before them they came to California to seek fortune. They established themselves as entrepreneurs, setting up a studio and painting the first wave of miners. The painting is entitled 'Miners in the Sierras', 1851-52, oil on canvas.
Date 1851/1852
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Nahl, Charles Christian Little Miss San Francisco Painting ID:: 79549 new24/Nahl, Charles Christian-385588.jpg
Little Miss San Francisco 1853(1853)
Medium Oil on canvas
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Nahl, Charles Christian and August Wenderoth Painting ID:: 79820 new24/Nahl, Charles Christian-498578.jpg
and August Wenderoth Date 1851/1852
Source Own photograph of painting in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC
Author photograph Ad Meskens; painting:
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German-born American Painter, 1818-1878
later known as Charles Nahl, Karl Nahl, Charles Christian Nahl or Charles C. Nahl, was a German-born painter who is called California's first significant artist.He came from a long line of artists and sculptors and was trained at the Cassel Academy. Unease over the political state of Hesse led him and his friend Frederick August Wenderoth (1819-1884) to Paris in 1846, where "Charles" enjoyed some success at the salon. The February Revolution prompted another move with his half-brother Hugo Wilhelm Arthur Nahl (1833-1889) to Brooklyn, New York, where they heard of the gold strike. They had no luck along the Yuba River but opened a studio with Wenderoth in Sacramento