works are held by the National Gallery of Art. Louis Mader Mader was born in 1842 and emigrated to the United States in 1867. He first entered the Berks County Almshouse in 1892 and painted at least eight views of the almshouse during the next three years. He left there in 1899 and there is no further record of him. The only non-almshouse painting attributed to him is a mural in a home in Parkesburg, Pennsylvania. His aerial view of the almshouse, created in 1895, is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art. John Rasmussen He was born in 1828 and emigrated to the United States in 1865. Like Hofmann, he was originally committed to the almshouse for vagrancy and drunkenness. He would stay from 1879 until his death in 1895. While there, he became a friend of Hofmann and was inspired to do similar paintings. These are his only known works, although the Reading City Directory had listed him as a painter for several years. Hofmann sold paintings locally. When he died in 1882, Rasmussen began to sell his works to Hofmann's former clients. After his death, he remained virtually unknown until 1968, when the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum held a retrospective show of all three Almshouse painters. His paintings may be seen at the Reading Public Museum and the American Folk Art Museum. References Further reading Michael David Zellman (ed.), 300 Years of American Art, Wellfleet Press, 1987 External links Full History of the Berks County Almshouse @ Asylum Projects Berks County Almshouse Cemetery @ Find-a-Grave The Almshouse Farm @ Pennsylvania Poorhouse History American painters Folk art Naïve painters German emigrants to the United States Almshouses Buildings and structures demolished in 1957