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Henriette Amiard Oberteuffer (Шаблон:DateШаблон:Fdate) was a French-born American painter, muralist, printmaker, and educator.

She was born Henriette Aurélie Eugénie Amiard on Шаблон:Date in Le Havre, France, the daughter of Charles Etienne Amiard and Victorine Alexandrine Daquet.[1] Her father was a coal merchant and amateur artist.[2]

She studied under Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens at the Académie Julian in Paris. She exhibited with the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Indépendants.[2][3] At the Académie, she met American artist George Oberteuffer. They married in 1905. Their son was the painter Karl Oberteuffer. The Oberteuffers moved to the United States in 1919.[2][4]

In 1922, they moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where George Oberteuffer worked as an art teacher and both Oberteuffers ran a summer art school in Cedarburg, Wisconsin. They both exhibited regionally and both won the prestigious Logan Prize from the Art Institute of Chicago, George in 1926 for a portrait of Henriette, and Henriette in 1927 for The Yellow Dress.[5] In the 1930s, they both taught art in Memphis, Tennessee, first at the Lee Academy, then the Memphis Academy of Arts.[6]

Henriette Oberteuffer won a competition to create a Works Progress Administration mural in the US Post Office and Courthouse in Vicksburg, Mississippi (now a privately owned building in the Uptown Vicksburg Historic District). The mural, Vicksburg—Its Character and Industries, was installed in 1939.[7]

Henriette Oberteuffer's work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago,[8] the Phillips Collection,[9] and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.[10]

Henriette Amiard Oberteuffer died in Massachusetts in 1962.[5]

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