Mathias Noheimer
1909-1982

Mathias J. Noheimer, a prolific artist and educator, was born in Cincinnati to Hungarian immigrants. He studied and taught at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and served as president of the Cincinnati Art Club (1961-63). Ultimately, he was a professor of graphic design and director of admissions at the University of Cincinnati School of Design, Architecture and Art. He worked out of a two-room studio on Chase Avenue in Northside, where he lived with his parents and first wife, Wanda. He exhibited at the Cincinnati Art Museum in 1932 and 1934 and at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1935. Around the time he painted the rathskeller mural (for the home’s original owner, Kroger vice president Joseph Bappert), as well as murals for the University of Cincinnati, the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County and at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden. Painting from scaffolding in order to reach high on his canvases, Noheimer was known as a “temple artist.” Noheimer died in 1982, in Bennington, Vermont.