Henry Wolf (engraver), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Henry Wolf (engraver)

French wood engraver

Date of Birth: 03-Aug-1852

Place of Birth: Eckwersheim, Grand Est, France

Date of Death: 18-Mar-1916

Profession: engraver

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Henry Wolf (1852–1916) was a French-born wood engraver who lived and worked in the United States during his most influential work period and until his death. Henry Wolf was born on August 3, 1852 in Eckwersheim, France.
He lived in Strasbourg and studied under Jacques Levy and exhibited in Paris.
Henry Wolf moved to New York City in 1871, where he created wood engravings of works by Gilbert Stuart, Enrique Serra, Frank Weston Benson, Howard Pyle, Henry Salem Hubbell, John Singer Sargent, A.
B.
Frost, Jan Vermeer, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Aimé Morot and Édouard Manet.
Many of his engravings were published in Scribner's Magazine,, Harper's Monthly, and Century Magazine.
In 1896 he started engraving his own artwork.
He exhibited 144 wood engravings at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.
He was awarded the Exposition's Grand Prize in printmaking that year.
He died in home in New York City on March 18, 1916.
His works are held in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Canton Museum of Art.



Alternative names	Emile Fuchs; Fuchs; e. fuchs
Description	Austrian painter, sculptor, medal engraver and illustrator
Date of birth/death	9 August 1866	13 January 1929
Location of birth/death	Vienna	New York City
Work location	Rome
Authority control	: Q2395259 VIAF: 34363706 ISNI: 0000 0000 6705 6368 ULAN: 500018457 LCCN: nr97023982 Open Library: OL2434441A WorldCat