The
"Jerusalem on the Day of the Crucifixion"panorama was painted in William Wehner's panorama
studio in downtown Milwaukee 1885-88 for Chicago, Minneapolis
and
Buffalo (and later London).
Below are two panels from the panorama: The
girl on the far left in both images is my
great aunt, Mathilde Georgine Schley (1864-1941) a model/ artist in
Wehner's panorama studio.
American
19th Century rotunda panoramas were the biggest
paintings in the world, 50 x 400=20,000 square
feet, housed in their own rotundas which were 16-sided polygons.
An important source of information about William Wehner's panorama studio are the F. W. Heine diaries 1879-1921. These highly illustrated diaries are the only narrative of William Wehner (1847-1928) of Chicago whose panorama studio was located in downtown Milwaukee. He imported panorama artists from royal academies in Germany, Switzerland, Austria. |
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