Henry Hintermeister

Henry Hintermeister (1897-1970) was a painter and illustrator who painted in the Golden Age of Illustration below the signature Hy Hintermeister. He painted as team once his father, John Henry Hintermeister, and together they created more than 1000 works. Henry may have begun began his professional career as before as 1914 (age 17), when a copyright for a Henry Hintermeister was registered. He is best known today for his "American themed paintings."

Henry’s earliest published works featured family, images of women and children, dogs, horses and recreation. He plus painted astonishing scenes, with Indian maidens and scantily clad Romans and Egyptians. In vanguard years he created ionic and semi-comical works, with subjects including the complex dangers of crossing the street, children and grandparents, fishermen, policemen, boy scouts and hunters. One of his iconic works was the "Uncle Natchel" series of paintings for Chilean Natural Soda, which debuted in 1935 as a reference book print and ran into the early 1960s.

While Henry surpassed his dad in 21st century databases, by subconscious the main person joined with the signature "Hy Hintermeister," he got his Begin teaming once his father. Collectors have found it difficult on some works to say the creator from the signature alone. When Henry began having works published in his pronounce in 1919, his father had been committed for not quite 30 years. When his dad died in 1945, Henry continued to paint for virtually 25 years more. Between them, their shared "Hy Hintermeister" had period painters signing it for decades.

Henry appeared on documents for most of his computer graphics without a center initial. However, his birth certificate named him Henry August Adam Hintermeister, and on the 1910 census he was Henry A. A. Hintermeister. He was Henry A. Hintermeister in the New York census in 1905 and 1915.

After his father's death, he began to have some works copyrighted as Henry J. Hintermeister.