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Gender	Male
Industry	Museums or Libraries
Occupation	independent scholar
Location	Sycamore, Illinois, United States
Introduction	I am writing the first book from the American point of view about 19th century rotunda panoramas. These were the biggest paintings in the world, 50 x 400=20,000 square feet, housed in their own rotundas which were 16-sided polygons. Chicago in 1893 had 6 panorama companies and 6 panorama rotundas
Interests	On September 18,2003 I found in the display case of Milwaukee County Historical Society the F.W.Heine diaries 1871-1921. These diaries are the only narrative of a panorama company, that of William Wehner (1847-1928)of Chicago whose panorama studio was in downtown Milwaukee because of cheap rent. The Heine diaries are as important to the history of rotunda panorama as the letters of Theo and Vincent Van Gogh are important to the history of Post-Impressionism. The diaries needed to be transcribed in German, translated to English and scanned to computer.Michael Kutzer,born in 1941 in Leipzig(like Heine),background in Hebrew,Greek and Latin, 19th century German literature and German dialects,a landscape artist from a long line of Kutzer landscape artists, is transcribing the Heine diaries. The Bradley Foundation of Milwaukee provided a generous initial grant to transcribe the diaries in German. I have much information to share.
Favorite books	Die altlutherische Auswanderung um die Mitte des 19.Jahrhunderts (Breslau 1943)by Wilhelm Iwan(1871-1958)