Artist. Godfrey Nicolas Frankenstein (1820 – 1873) was born near Darmstadt, Germany in 1820, and his father, Johann Adams Tracht changed their name to "Frankenstein," when the family emigrated to Cincinnati, Ohio in 1831, and later Springfield, Ohio. Godfrey was a German-American painter and known as "The Painter of Niagara Falls" after creating about a hundred paintings of the national treasure. In 1839 he exhibited a number of landscapes at the art academy, and he also opened a portrait studio. Niagara Falls became his best-known subject. In 1841 he became the first president of the Cincinnati Academy of Arts. Seventeen of his Niagara views were reproduced in Harper's Row Monthly in August of 1853. Frankenstein also painted landscapes of the area around Springfield, Ohio, and the White Mountains of New Hampshire. In 1867, the Frankenstein brothers traveled to Europe, received acclaims, and they returned to the United States in 1869. In the White Mountains of New Hampshire, there is a train trestle and a cliff named in his honor by the family who owned most of it at the time, Dr. Samuel Bemis, a Boston dentist. The "Chronicles of the White Mountains" states that the sixteenth lithographic plate and another done were drawing by Isaac Sprague from Godfrey N. Frankenstein paintings.
Artist. Godfrey Nicolas Frankenstein (1820 – 1873) was born near Darmstadt, Germany in 1820, and his father, Johann Adams Tracht changed their name to "Frankenstein," when the family emigrated to Cincinnati, Ohio in 1831, and later Springfield, Ohio. Godfrey was a German-American painter and known as "The Painter of Niagara Falls" after creating about a hundred paintings of the national treasure. In 1839 he exhibited a number of landscapes at the art academy, and he also opened a portrait studio. Niagara Falls became his best-known subject. In 1841 he became the first president of the Cincinnati Academy of Arts. Seventeen of his Niagara views were reproduced in Harper's Row Monthly in August of 1853. Frankenstein also painted landscapes of the area around Springfield, Ohio, and the White Mountains of New Hampshire. In 1867, the Frankenstein brothers traveled to Europe, received acclaims, and they returned to the United States in 1869. In the White Mountains of New Hampshire, there is a train trestle and a cliff named in his honor by the family who owned most of it at the time, Dr. Samuel Bemis, a Boston dentist. The "Chronicles of the White Mountains" states that the sixteenth lithographic plate and another done were drawing by Isaac Sprague from Godfrey N. Frankenstein paintings.
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