John N. Wenrich

Who is John N. Wenrich?

John N. Wenrich - A 20th-century American artist of the "Pennsylvania Impressionist" style,

Wenrich graduated from the Mohnton High School in 1934 and was a magna cum laude graduate from Kutztown State University in 1939, with a degree in Art Education. He began his career as a public school art teacher in the Pottsgrove Township school district in Montgomery County and worked on a master's degree at Columbia University in New York. He then assumed supervision of art education in the Mohnton schools. His teaching career was interrupted by service in WWII from 1943-1945. Returning from the war as a first lieutenant, he worked briefly for the Kresge Company and then became director of advertising and marketing services for the Glen-Gery Corporation of Reading PA.

Wenrich continued his education and work in oil painting, studying at the Art Students League in New York with John Howard Sanden and others. He also made several trips to Arizona to study at the Southwest Art School. He graduated from the Portrait Institute of America. After retiring from the corporate world in 1982, he returned to landscape painting, his first love.