Charles Rosner

1894-1975

German/American (New York, New York)

Born to a doctor's family in Langendorf, Germany, Charles Rosner's childhood included family holidays in the Port of Kolberg. During these visits he developed a fascination for the sea and the vessels which plied its ways. He went on to serve aboard the sailing ships he admired as a youth and accumulated an impressive five cape horn passages before leaving the sailor's life in Iquique, Peru at the onset of World War I. The artist then emigrated to Canada and onward to America, where he soon married and established a permanent home in New York. Rosner's affinity for the sea propelled him into a commitment as a full-time marine painter of historic sailing vessels, and other sea-faring subjects.