Biehle, August Frederick, 1854-1918.

August F. Biehle, Jr. (1885-1979) was an American Modernist painter. Biehle was born in Cleveland, the son of Christina (Mussler) and August F. Biehle, Sr. Biehle trained as an apprentice decorator with his father for the firm of Rorimer Brooks. He went to Europe in 1903 to study painting in Paris and at the Kunstgeverbeschule in Munich. Upon his return to Cleveland in 1905 Biehle went to work for the Sherwin Williams Company. He was a lithographer for Otis Lithography and Continental Lithography Corporation where he remained from 1913-52. He was married in 1921to the former Mary Theresa Wessler. Around 1919 Biehle began painting with Henry Keller at Berlin Heights,Ohio, an artist's colony near Sandusky, Ohio. Biehle contributed paintings of both urban and rural.Ohio to the American Scene movement of the 1920s and 1930s.Biehle was a member of the Kokoon Arts Club in Cleveland, Ohio, which was founded in 1911 by a group of young Cleveland artists including William Sommer, Carl Moellmann, Morris Grossman, Elmer Brubeck, and Harry Stebner.

From the guide to the Biehle Family Collection: Correspondence and Memorabilia, 1870-2002, 1870-2002, (Cleveland Public Library)

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