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Swiss artist
Paul Emmert
(1826?1867), who is also known as
Paul Emert
, was an artist born near
Berne, Switzerland
in 1826. He immigrated to New York City at age 19, where he rapidly became an established artist. He joined the
gold rush
to California in 1849. The following year he exhibited a
panorama
of the gold mining activities in Brooklyn, before making his second trip to California late in 1850. While in California, he operated the Bear Hotel in Sacramento and a theater in San Francisco. He exhibited his
panorama
in San Francisco and other communities.
In 1853, he moved to Hawaii, and opened a print shop in Honolulu, where he made prints after his own drawings of local landmarks. He moved to
Kailua-Kona
and farmed a
sugarcane
plantation
where he resided until his death in 1867.
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The
Amon Carter Museum
(Fort Worth, Texas), the Hawaii Historical Society and the
Honolulu Museum of Art
are among the public collections holding works by Paul Emmert.
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- Forbes, David W., "Encounters with Paradise: Views of Hawaii and its People, 1778?1941", Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1992, 93?140.
- Severson, Don R.,
Finding Paradise: Island Art in Private Collections
, University of Hawaii Press, 2002, pp. 77?8, 132, 139?41, 182.
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