Edward Eisenlohr was born in
Cincinnati, Ohio. He was two years old his family moved to Dallas as
early settlers of Oak Cliff. He studied in Zürich and Germany with
the intention of becoming an artist. During the summers from 1889 to
1907 he studied with Robert J. Onderdonk and Frank Reaugh. He
braved sandstorms, rattlesnakes and quicksand as a companion of
Frank Reaugh as they sketched West Texas early in the century.
He then studied at the Art Students
League Summer School in Woodstock, New York, with Birge Harrison and
traveled to Europe. He was invited to join Gustave Schoenleber's
class at the Grand-ducal Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Between 1916 and 1926 Eisenlohr lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico, for
six months out of each year. He became known as a landscapist
who had a marvelous ability to paint cloud and atmospheric effects.
His works have been exhibited at the
Corcoran Gallery, Washington; New Orleans Art Association; the
National Academy of Design and the Museum of Modern Art, New York;
The Texas Centennial Exhibition; 1939 New York World's Fair; Southern
States Art League Exhibitions; the Pan-American Exposition; the
Albany Institute of the History of Art; the Golden Gate
Exposition; the St. Louis Museum; the Museum of New
Mexico; and numerous solo exhibitions. He is represented in the
permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the Elisabet Ney
Museum in Austin, the Delgado Museum of Art in New Orleans, the
Witte Museum at San Antonio, and the art museums of Abilene,
Houston, and Santa Fe.