Wueste, Louisa. Drawing of granddaughter Lille Wueste, age 6, 1867. (UTSA Special Collections Library)
Wueste, Louisa. Drawing of Elize Bunzen. Ca 1850s (SMU, Central University Libraries, Hamon Arts Library, Bywaters Special Collections)
A classified ad for work placed by Louisa Wueste in Flake’s Daily Bulletin, a Galveston newspaper. October 9, 1865. (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas - Austin)
Wueste, Louisa. Drawing of an unidentified woman, ca. 1860s, possibly at Eagle Pass, TX (UTSA Special Collections Library)
Wueste, Louisa. Portrait of Nanette Mueller, 1865 (Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Olga H. Vogel)
Lungkwitz, Hermann. Crockett Street Looking West, San Antonio de Bexar, 1857.
Iwonski, Carl von, Log Cabin near New Braunfels. Before 1873
Louisa Wueste, a portrait painter born in Germany, became a pioneer for women artists in Texas and the Southwest in the mid-1800s. From her San Antonio studio, Wueste created many works, including portraits whose subjects dress and mannerisms reveal much about early Texans and their culture.
Wueste began receiving art commissions after the Civil War, which she spent living in Mexico, and her work has never been catalogued. Most of it is owned by family members and private collectors, but the largest public collection of her works resides here, at the Witte. Also at the Witte are works by German Texan painters Hermann Lungkwitz and Carl von Iwonski.
Witte Museum
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