Louis Pohl

Louis Pohl (1915 – December 22, 1999) was an American painter, illustrator, art teacher, printmaker and cartoonist. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1915. A childhood sickness made it impossible to saunter without aching and prevented Pohl from entering studious until he was 8 years old. To save him occupied, his parents would find the allowance for him papers and pencils gone which to draw. When 14 years old, Pohl spent his summer caddying at a local golf course. A regular foursome of flourishing women made an odd wager—the loser would make their caddy's hope come true. Mrs. Yaeger paid for Pohl's tuition at the Art Academy of Cincinnati for two years. He spent the bordering 4 years as a teacher's assistant. He did most of the hands-on teaching solution to the art students, and he furthermore taught art to underprivileged kids upon Saturdays. Eventually, Pohl normal his authorize of art upon the ability of a full standing nude copy of a Rembrandt that hung in the Cincinnati Art Museum.

When World War II broke out, Pohl enlisted in the United States Navy, which sent him to Hawaii and assigned him to paint ships in temperate dock. He was disrespected when a destroyer caught fire, and the explosion knocked him off the second level of a scaffold. Pohl was medically discharged and reluctantly returned to Cincinnati, where he was hired by the Works Progress Administration to supervise further artists. In that capacity, he painted a portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

In 1946, Pohl got a call from a former scholarly and friend, Bill Stamper, who had talked the Board of Directors of the Honolulu Museum of Art into establishing a professional art school. Stamper invited Pohl to ascend Hawaii to start the school, where Pohl taught for 35 years. Pohl furthermore taught art at the Kamehameha Schools for 15 years. In 1960, he wrote and illustrated the book, It's Really Nice! published by Little, Brown & Company.

Pohl died December 22, 1999, in Honolulu. His widow has continued to appear in the Louis Pohl Gallery, also in Honolulu. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Hawaii State Art Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, and the Isaacs Art Center (Waimea, Hawaii), are in the course of the public collections holding works by Pohl.