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Henri Moser:(September 22, 1876 – September 1, 1951)[1] was a Mormon artist in the 20th century. [edit]Biography

Moser was born in Wabern, Switzerland, christened John Henry Moser. His parents joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and John immigrated to the United States in June 1888 at age 11. When he first came to Utah, he lived in Payson with the John and Alma Diem family. John spent the next ten years with the Diem family. His great love and respect for the Diems is evident in his reference to them in a brief autobiography as Grandpa and Grandma Diem.

In 1898 Moser moved to Logan, Utah to be with his mother and other relatives. With money saved from working in the Gilt Edge mine in Montana he enrolled at the Utah State Agricultural College (USAC; now Utah State University) in Logan to study engineering. His artistic skills were immediately recognized by one of his professors who encouraged him to study art, saying he could no doubt become a great artist.

With the encouragement and financial assistance from the college president, Dr. John A. Widtsoe, and others he traveled to Paris to study art. From 1909 to 1911 Moser left a wife and two sons in Logan while he studied art at the Delecluse and Cari and Miller art studios in Paris.

Hafen was one of the founders of the Utah Art Association in 1881. In 1890, Hafen, Lorus Pratt and John B. Fairbanks were sent to Paris as art missionaries for the LDS Church. At this point he left his wife, Thora Twede Hafen, and their five children in Springville, Utah.[2] After they completed their studies, the Mormon artists returned to Utah and created murals in the Salt Lake Temple. After returning from France, Hafen's main focus was on landscape painting. He donated paintings to Springville that were the initial basis of the Springville Art Museum. Hafen had five more children with his wife—the youngest being born in 1904. Hafen was a professor at Brigham Young Academy, where he developed the art department. He was recruited to come there to do this specifically by Benjamin Cluff.[3] Hafen lived in Springville, in a home designed by Alberto O. Treganza.