Jean Mannheim was born in Germany, which he fled for Paris after being drafted in to the army. While in Paris, Mannheim supported himself and his art studies at the Ecole Delecluse and Academie Colarossi with his skills as a bookbinder. Mannheim left Paris for the U.S. in the 1880’s, settling in Chicago, where he painted portraits and taught in a Decatur art school. Following teaching stints in London and Denver, Mannheim moved to Pasadena in 1908, where he built a home on the rim of the Arroyo Seco. While in southern California, Mannheim developed the bright style of landscape painting for which he is most well known. He also founded the Stickney Memorial School of Fine Arts in Pasadena in 1913.
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