Biography from AskART:
| | Born in Zweibrücken, Switzerland in 1820. Kuchel immigrated to America in the 1840s and worked in Philadelphia for P. S. Duval. About 1853 he sailed around the Horn to San Francisco where he was soon a partner of Emil Dresel in a lithography company that specialized in views of mining towns and California cities. Kuchel died in San Francisco on Dec. 20, 1864. In: State Museum Resource Center (Sacramento). | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
California State Library (Sacramento); New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America (Groce, George C. and David H. Wallace); California on Stone (Peters); Artists of the American West (Samuels); SF Alta, 12-21-1864 (obituary). | | Nearly 20,000 biographies can be found in Artists in California 1786-1940 by Edan Hughes and is available for sale ($150). For a full book description and order information please click here. |
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