| Louis C. Vogt | ||
| Birth Date: July 29, 1864 |
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| Death Date: February 9, 1939 Artist Gallery |
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| Artist, soldier and world traveler, Louis Charles Vogt was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. He attended evening classes with Frank Duveneck at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, and later studied with H. Siddons Mowbray at the Art Students League in New York. In New York his work was recognized by Alexander Wilson Drake of The Century, who introduced him to the wealthy inventor Richard March Hoe. Vogt was invited to set up a studio in Hoe’s palatial estate, and began illustrating for The Century and Harper’s.
Vogt apparently traveled throughout the country, often in the company of vagabonds, and slept in orchards or haystacks. He arrived in California penniless when he heard men were needed for service in the Far East. He enlisted and was sent to Manila during the Spanish-American War as a member of the Ninth Infantry. He was later part of the international relief expedition that entered the besieged Forbidden City in Beijing, China during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900. While living in Egypt, Vogt sent several paintings back to his native city of Cincinnati for an exhibition there.
He traveled in the Orient and on his return home in 1914 Vogt sent Wet Day in Yokohama Japan for the exhibition at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition at San Francisco, California in 1915.
His most important commission, and his proudest achievement, was the series of four paintings of Cincinnati landscapes he completed for the Hamburg-American ocean liner around 1910. By the 1930s Vogt was a resident of St. Augustine, Florida. He rented a studio from the Oliver family, who had remodeled several buildings into artists’ studios. The area functioned as a winter artists’ colony, and Vogt apparently traded paintings for rent during the sojourn in Florida.
Vogt was a member of the Cincinnati Art club and the southern Watercolor Association.
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