a immigrant from Austria, and veteran of the Civil War, and artist, Mr. Kurz in partnership with his backer Allison, would become extremely successful in the post war years mass producing highly colored oleolithographs of patriotic battle scenes, these Kurz and Allison prints feature romanticised, exciting images crowded with figures and met a hungry demand for affordable displays in the homes of lower and middle class Americans in the 1870s to 1905 era.

    These scenes are an important influence on my civil war figure painting style...