Mort Künstler

Mort Künstler (born August 28, 1931) is an American performer known for his illustrative paintings of historical events, especially of the American Civil War. He was a child prodigy, who, with encouragement from his parents, became a capable artist by the times he was twelve. Today he is considered the "best-known and most recognized historical player in the country."

Künstler began his career in the 1950s as a freelance artist, illustrating paperback compilation covers and men's adventure magazines. In 1965 he was commissioned by National Geographic to Make what became his first historic painting. He in addition to created posters for movies such as The Poseidon Adventure and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. And by the 1970s he was painting covers for Newsweek, Reader's Digest, and additional magazines, with the bulk of his behave during that times in advertising art.

While many of his prematurely magazine illustrations were for public entertainment, Künstler eventually began creating military art. In 1977, his first major gallery exhibition brought additional attention to his talents as a historical artist. By the 1980s he was respected as America's foremost Civil War artist, and would eventually Make over 350 Civil War paintings alone. Some of his paintings have untouched opinions approximately the truth of early well-known paintings by others, such as Emmanuel Leutze's famous "Washington Crossing the Delaware." Besides his Civil War paintings, he created historical art of the American Revolution through the Korean and Vietnam wars, along next paintings of World War II. He painted historical activities such as the Oklahoma Land Rush and new immigrants upon Ellis Island.

Collections of Künstler's sham are published as limited-edition prints, and his artistic output places him in advance of contemporary historical realism. NASA made him their endorsed artist for the melody shuttle Columbia. In 1982, CBS-TV had him realize a painting for the 3-part mini-series The Blue and the Gray, and in 1993 a one-hour television special, Images of the Civil War - The Paintings of Mort Künstler, was shown upon the A&E TV network. He has standard numerous honors and awards, and at least nine books are dedicated to featuring his artwork. Some experts see him as the adjacent Norman Rockwell.