Henry Wolf was born on August 3, 1852, in Eckwersheim, France.

[1] He lived in Strasbourg and studied under Jacques Levy[2] and exhibited in Paris.

Henry Wolf moved to New York City in 1871,[3] where he created wood engravings of works by Gilbert Stuart, Enric Serra Auqué, Frank Weston Benson, Howard Pyle, Henry Salem Hubbell, John Singer Sargent, A.

Frost, Jan Vermeer, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Aimé Morot and Édouard Manet.

He exhibited 144 wood engravings at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.