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Otto KuhlerOtto Kuhler Signed Original Etching “Mississippi Evening”1923
1923
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Otto Kuhler (1894-1976) original etching, 1923. Title: “Mississippi Evening”
Signed in pencil lower right. Title in pencil lower center. Dated lower left, 1923.
Image measures 7 7/8"h x 10 3/8"w, edition size is 25. In excellent condition.
It rests in a 16 x 20-inch museum mat and is unframed.
Otto August Kuhler (1894-1976) was an American designer, one of the best-known industrial designers of the American railroads.
According to Trains magazine he stream-styled more locomotives and railroad cars than Cret, Dreyfuss and Loewy combined.
Kuhler was born in Germany the only child in an anvil casters' family. After returning from an early school exchange with Belgium he showed a conspicuous talent for drawing. Influenced by the art of Pennell, he learned etching after World War I and enrolled at the Academy of Art in Düsseldorf. After emigration to the US in 1923 he worked as a commercial artist in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His works centered on industrial landscapes, steel works and locomotives.
Kuhler opened a Manhattan studio in 1928. The American Locomotive Company (ALCO) assigned Kuhler to its advertising department in 1931. As art director of the B&O magazine Kuhler was instrumental in developing the blue and gray color scheme and the modernized herald of B&O. When B&O turned to streamlining its Washington-New York run Kuhler could finally establish his "bullet nose" design on a steam locomotive that became known as "Kuhler type". The "Kuhler type" locomotive pulled the famous Royal Blue train (as an ultimate compliment Raymond Loewy later used a bullet nose on the giant engine S-1 for the New-York World Fair). Kuhler was hired at American Car & Foundry (ACF) in 1944 where he developed double-deck sleepers, subway cars with standee windows and more. Most of his patents were applied for while at ACF.
The Kuhlers sold their home and studio near Blauvelt, New York, and bought a ranch near Bailey, Colorado. Cattle raising and painting the West were now on Kuhler's agenda, the fruits of which can be seen in many American museums. At age 75 he sold the farm and moved with Simonne to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1969 to continue painting. Eight years later they moved back to Denver, Colorado, where Kuhler died at age 83.
Currently, some of his work can be seen at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, CO. Other Kuhler paintings are owned by the New Mexico Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, University of Missouri at St. Louis, Henry Ford Museum, Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Denver Public Library in Denver, Colorado, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the Roentgen Museum in Remscheid, Germany.
- Creator:Otto Kuhler (1894 - 1977, German)
- Creation Year:1923
- Dimensions:Height: 7.88 in (20.02 cm)Width: 10.38 in (26.37 cm)
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- Condition:Full margins. Deckle Edges.
- Gallery Location:Phoenix, AZ
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2749215571282
Otto Kuhler
Otto Kuhler was one of the best known industrial designers of the American railroads. According to Trains magazine “he streamstyled more locomotives and railroad cars than Cret, Dreyfuss and Loewy combined.” Kuhler’s extensive concepts for the modernization of the American railroads have repercussions on the railways worldwide until today. Also, Kuhler was a prolific artist of industrial aesthetics and the American West in general.
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