| Edmund H. Osthaus | ||
| Birth Date: August 5, 1858 |
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| Death Date: January 29, 1928 Artist Gallery |
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| Edmund Osthaus was born in Hildesheim, Germany, in 1858 and attended the Royal Academy of Arts at Dusseldorf. His father, Henry Osthaus, took the family to Mexico, but his son, Edmund, remained in Germany to continue his studies. Following the revolution that overthrew Archduke Maximilian’s rule of Mexico, the Osthaus family moved to Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Once Edmund graduated from the Royal Academy, he joined his family in the United State in 1883.
It was in Wisconsin that Osthaus met David R. Locke, a Toledo newspaperman and art lover. Locke recognized the talent of Osthaus and hired him to head a new Toledo art academy.
Soon after moving to Ohio, Osthaus came into national prominence as a painter of dogs. A great hunter and outstanding handler and field trial judge, he took his dogs to Florida each winter to train and to enter in field trials. As time went on, he did more and more paintings of setters and pointers, painting some of the most famous American hunting dogs of the time “Count Whitestone”, “Toledo Duke”, “Count Gladstone” and “Sioux Champ”, among others.
In 1893 he left the art academy in Toledo to work in his own studio at Madison Avenue and 11th Street in Toledo.
Osthaus was instrumental in establishing an art museum in the Toledo community; and from 1901-11, he was a Trustee for the Toledo Museum of Art. In late January of 1928, Osthaus died in his sleep while in Florida.
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