A Transatlantic Life: The Story of Tobias Edward Rosenthal Tobias Edward Rosenthal, known to most as Toby (born March 15, 1848, in Strasbourg, Prussia – died December 23, 1917, in Munich), occupies a fascinating, somewhat paradoxical position in the annals of 19th-century painting. Though he spent the vast majority of his artistic career in Europe, and achieved considerable recognition there, Rosenthal’s early life was deeply rooted i…