Charles Rosner

American (1894-1975)

Born to a doctor’s family in Langendorf, Germany, in 1894, Charles Rosner’s childhood included family holidays in the Port of Kolberg on the Baltic Sea. During these visits he developed a fascination for the sea and the vessels which plied its ways. He went on to serve aboard the sailing ships he admired as a youth and accumulated an impressive five Cape Horn passages before leaving the sailor’s life at the onset of World War I. After the war, the artist emigrated to Canada and onward to the United States, where he settled in New York. There Rosner took up full-time marine painting of historic maritime subjects.

Rosner’s works are in the Mystic Seaport Museum.