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Henry Prellwitz (American, 1865–1940)
Two Figures, n.d.

Monotype, 7 5/8 x 11 3/4 in.
Collection of The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York. Gift of
the Baker/Pisano Collection, 2001.9.198

The son of German emigrants, Henry Prellwitz was born in
New York City. At the age of fourteen, Prellwitz enrolled at the
City College of New York, and from 1882 to 1887 studied with
Thomas Dewing at the Art Students League of New York.
Like his wife Edith Mitchill Prellwitz, he attended the
Académie Julian in Paris for three years beginning in the fall
of 1887. After teaching at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn,
Prellwitz becomes a director of the Art Students League from
1894 to 1898. Both he and his wife were members of, and
exhibited with, the Society of American Artists of which he
was the secretary when the organization merged with the
National Academy of Design in 1906. Prellwitz served as
treasurer of the National Academy from 1928 until his death
in 1940. This is the only known monotype by Henry Prellwitz.
NOTES:
Dearinger, Paintings and Sculpture, 450.
Pisano and Gerdts, Painters of Peconic, 69-70.
For more information, see Pisano and Goley, Henry & Edith Mitchill
Prellwitz & the Peconic Art Colony.

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