Hermann Lungkwitz
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Hermann Lungkwitz was a 19th-century German-born Texas romantic landscape artist and photographer whose work became the first pictorial record of the Texas Hill Country.
Hermann Lungkwitz: by Friedrich Richard Petri, ca. 1851, oil (23.75 x 20 in.), collection of the Governor’s Mansion, Austin, Texas, USA
Sunset in Saxony, oil on canvas, (date, dimensions and collection unknown).
Enchanted Rock near Fredericksburg, 1864, oil on canvas, (dimensions and collection unknown).
"Split Rock on Shoal Creek", oil on academy board by Hermann Lungkwitz.
Jacob Kuechler
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Jacob Kuechler was a surveyor, conscientious objector during the American Civil War, and commissioner of the Texas General Land Office. Kuechler pioneered the science of dendrochronology to date natur
Hermann Lungkwitz
…Carl G. von Iwonski. In 1870 he accepted an $1,800 a year appointment in Austin as photographer for the Texas General Land Office under commissioner Jacob Kuechler, brother-in-law to Friedrich Richard Petri. He held the position for the entirety of the administration of Governor Edmund J. Davis. His daughter Martha…
Jacob Kuechler