That year he completed his first documented painting, a portrait of the famed Indian scout and tracker "Lord Baltimore" (cf.

In 1885, in the company of another Cincinnati artist, Joseph Henry Sharp, he sailed to Germany, did some traveling, and enrolled in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in October.

John and Minnie Hauser spent considerable time on the Pine Ridge reservation, where they camped in a tent on the Sioux lands for six months a year between 1901 and 1905.

When the couple built a home in the Clifton area of Cincinnati in 1904, they named it "Pine Ridge" to reflect their love of and respect for the Sioux.

Hauser painted hundreds of portraits of Native Americans, including Sitting Bull, Little Wound, Bald Face, Red Cloud, and countless others.

[2] He produced numerous paintings that tell a story, including his largest documented canvas, now in the collection of the Cincinnati Public Schools, which depicts the "Advance of Civilization".