Henry Otto Wix
Henry Otto Wix (1866–1922), also known as Otto Wix, was a German-born landscape and portrait painter who emigrated to the United States in the late 1890s. He studied in New York, but visited Hawaii in 1907 and 1908–9. About 1910, he moved to San Francisco, but visited Hawaii again in 1912. He also made several sketching trips to Mexico. Wix's marriage ended in divorce, resulting in depression and alcoholism. He died by his own hand in Santa Barbara, California on March 13, 1922. Wix is best known for his landscapes in watercolor. The Honolulu Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum are among the public collections holding paintings by Henry Otto Wix. References Sources Hughes, Edan, Artists in California 1786-1940, Sacramento, Crocker Art Museum, 2002. Severson, Don R. Finding Paradise: Island Art in Private Collections, University of Hawaii Press, 2002, p. 104, 108–9. External links Henry Otto Wix in AskArt.com Smithsonian American Art Museum, Art Inventories Catalog 1866 births 1922 deaths Artists from Hawaii 19th-century American painters American male painters 20th-century American painters Painters from California 19th-century German painters 19th-century American male artists German male painters 20th-century German painters 20th-century American male artists Emigrants from the German Empire to the United States People of the Territory of Hawaii Suicides in California