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Henry Otto Wix (1866–1922), also known as Otto Wix, was a German-born landscape and portrait painter who emigrated to the United States in the late 1890s. He studied in New York, but visited Hawaii in 1907 and 1908–9. About 1910, he moved to San Francisco, but visited Hawaii again in 1912. He also made several sketching trips to Mexico. Wix's marriage ended in divorce, resulting in depression and alcoholism. He died by his own hand in Santa Barbara, California on March 13, 1922.
Wix is best known for his landscapes in watercolor. The Honolulu Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum are among the public collections holding paintings by Henry Otto Wix.
References
- Severson, 2002
- Severson, 2002
- Hughes, Edan, 2002
- AskArt.com
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Art Inventories Catalog
Sources
- Hughes, Edan, Artists in California 1786-1940, Sacramento, Crocker Art Museum, 2002.
- Severson, Don R. Finding Paradise: Island Art in Private Collections, University of Hawaii Press, 2002, p. 104, 108–9.
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Categories:- 1866 births
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- Artists from Hawaii
- 19th-century American painters
- American male painters
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- Painters from California
- 19th-century German painters
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- German male painters
- 20th-century German painters
- 20th-century American male artists
- Emigrants from the German Empire to the United States
- People from the Territory of Hawaii
- Suicides in California