 August Benzinger is primarily known as August Benziger
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An artist who claims to have painted from life "the portraits of seven Presidents of Republics and two Popes, August Benziger was born in Switzerland but followed his father to New York City where the father moved in 1852. His father was the head of a famous publishing company, which had been publishers to the papacy in Rome for 400 years, and he went to America to establish a branch of the publishing house.
August Benziger studied art in Munich and Vienna, but his father discourage (showing 500 of 1311 characters). |
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