Louis F. Haffen
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Louis Francis Haffen was an American engineer and politician who was the first Bronx Borough President. He was elected four times and was known as the "Father of the Bronx." He was a member of the Dem
Louis F. Haffen First Borough President of The Bronx
Oscar Florianus Bluemner
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Oscar Bluemner, born Friedrich Julius Oskar Blümner and after 1933 known as Oscar Florianus Bluemner, was a Prussian-born American Modernist painter.
Louis F. Haffen
…Building and the Bronx Borough Courthouse (built between 1905 and 1915), but a scandal arose when it was discovered that Garvin was not the architect. Oscar Florianus Bluemner was the real architect, and the allegations of plagiarism and fraud in relation to who designed the courthouse forced Louis Haffen's resignation from…
1903 self-portrait
Evening Tones
Form and Light, Motif in West New Jersey (1914)
Old Canal Port