Mathias Alten arguably is the most important artist Grand Rapids ever has produced, and his work has inspired composer Jeremy Crosmer, not once, but twice.
Alten, though born in Germany, came to Grand Rapids with his family in 1889 at age 17. Over the next 49 years, his body of more than 2,500 works was collected widely and exhibited in major galleries in the United States and abroad. By the time of his death in 1938 in Grand Rapids, he was referred to as the “dean of Michigan...
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