Biografie von Louis Frederick GRELL (1887-1960)

Birth place: Council Bluffs, IA

Addresses: Chicago

Profession: Painter, teacher, illustrator

Studied: School Applied Art, Hamburg, Germany; Royal Acad. FA, Munich; Univ. Munich; Carl V. Marr; Angelo Jank.

Exhibited: AIC; Munic. Art Lg., Chicago, 1936 (prize).

Member: All-Illinois Soc. FA; Cliff Dwellers; Chicago Galleries Assn.; NSMP; Chicago P&S

Work: murals, Bank of Detroit, MI; Detroit Water Board Bldg.; Union Station, St. Louis, MO; Fort Hayes Hotel, Columbus, OH; Northwestern Military and Naval Acad., Geneva, WI; Mark Twain Hotel, St. Louis; Paramount Theater, Toledo; Chicago Rotary Club; Gateway Theater, Chicago Manufacturers Bank & Trust Co. St. Louis; Paramount Theatre Lobby, Toledo, OH; Heidelberg Hotel, Baton Rouge, LA; Raleigh Hotel, Waco, TX; Congress Hotel, Chicago; Roosevelt Hotel, Pittsburgh; Eldorado Hotel, New York City; Netherland Plaza Hotel, Cincinnati; portraits, paintings, Mayflower Hotel, Washington, DC; Pompeian dining room and murals for lobby of Congress Hotel, Chicago; Hotel Oliver, South Bend, IN; Gulf Mobile & Ohio Station, Springfield, IL; decorations numerous churches.

Comments: Position: instructor, Chicago Acad. FA.

Sources: WW59; WW47; Ness & Orwig, Iowa Artists of the First Hundred Years, 90.