Peter Bernhard Wilhelm Heine, better known as Wilhelm Heine was a German-American artist, world traveller and writer as well as an officer during the American Civil War.
Portrait of Wilhelm Heine from 1886
"Commodore Matthew C. Perry's visit of Kanagawa"
"Shimoda as seen from the American Grave Yard" looking towards the harbor (lithograph, 1856).
"Napha from Bamboo Village" looking towards the seashore (lithograph, 1856).
Edgar Hanfstaengl was a chief clerk, commercial purchaser and art publisher. He was significantly the son of a famous Bavarian court photographer who was connected with the circle of Ludwig II and bec
Wilhelm Heine
…b. 1824 in Albany/N.Y.; d. 1859 in Berlin), a cousin of general John Sedgwick (1813–1864). His daughter Katharina Wilhelmina Heine (1859–1945) married Edgar Hanfstaengl, one of their five children was Ernst Hanfstaengl, a former associate of Adolf Hitler. 1856 -- Graphic Scenes in the Japan Expedition. New York: G. P…
Photograph of Edgar Hanfstaengl
Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria