Hermann Herzog and Florida

  Hermann Herzog often traveled to Florida by the early 1890s. His son, Herman Jr. lived in Gainesville and that was the primary motivation to make the journey. 

  Herzog sojourned far beyond Gainesville, however, scouring and painting the Palmetto hummocks (also called hammocks) of the gulf, and the waters and forests of undeveloped and untamed Florida. He included the wildlife of these areas by painting the deer, herons, razorbacks, bears and other denizens of untouched, lush tropics. 

  An art critic for a Philadelphia newspaper at one time expressed, "No one knows better than he how to intensify the loneliness of a forest dell by the introduction of a shy deer or solitary heron."

  Hermann Herzog continued to travel to Florida until around 1910.

  Herzog completed over 300 oil paintings of Florida. The Hermann Herzog Florida Project was conceived in order to collect and study only the Florida paintings by Herzog, as the primary purpose of Edward and Deborah Pollack is to bring to light works by the artists who created glorious paintings of Florida. The project was originated by the Pollacks to focus much-deserved current attention to Herzog's Florida paintings.

                    

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Painting of Florida, ca. 1890 by Hermann Herzog signed H. Herzog, recently purchased by Edward and Deborah Pollack. This work is not for sale at this time.

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