John Hermann, Jr. Memorial Art Museum

Website:
http://johnhermannmuseum.org/

Telephone Number:
(412) 761-8008

Location:
318 Lincoln Avenue. Bellevue Borough, PA 15202

Hours:

Sundays 1 PM to 4 PM

Description:

The John A. Hermann Memorial Art Museum has been located at 318 Lincoln Avenue since 1976. The museum showcases a diverse collection of a single artist.

John Adam Hermann, Jr. was born on the North Side in 1855.

As a child, he dreamed of becoming an artist. He loved art and wanted to spend his entire life painting, but at the age of 18 he obediently went into his father's leather business, located on East Ohio Street, in Allegheny City. He worked at the leather business for 37 long years, painting only on weekends in Pittsburgh, Allegheny City, and in rural Pennsylvania.

At age 55, a lifelong bachelor, he settled his father's estate and was finally able to devote the remainder of his life to realizing his early dream of becoming a full-time artist. Like many of his fellow American artists, John Hermann was self-taught and his paintings were little known outside his immediate circle of family and friends during his lifetime. He did receive some recognition and great admiration for his "on location" watercolor painting in the State of Florida, where he painted often while on holiday. John Hermann had already decided, at some earlier point in time, never to sell or disperse his paintings.