biography of August H. BECKER (1840-1903)

Birth place: Cologne, Germany

Death place: St. Louis, MO

Addresses: St. Louis, MO, 1843

Profession: Portrait and mural painter

Studied: With Léon Pomerade, St. Louis, MO

Exhibited: Boston AC, 1876

Work: St. Louis Courthouse; Missouri Hist. Soc.; Harmsen Collection.

Comments: Specialty: murals of Indian genre. In 1861, he assisted his half-brother, Charles Wimar (see entry), in painting the dome of the St. Louis courthouse.

Sources: G&W; Rathbone, Charles Wimar," in City Art Museum of St. Louis, Catalogue, Charles Wimar (1946); P&H Samuels, 32-33."