[4] When his father August Friedrich Hintermeister immigrated to the United States, he remained in Switzerland to finish school, studying art.

[4][2] He turned down a professorship in Switzerland and a chance to teach, choosing instead to join his father in the United States in 1890.

[4] After nearly dying in the Park Place Disaster in August 1891, in which the factory building he was working in collapsed, he stepped away from the in-factory lithography that he was doing at the time to "pursue his dreams.

His subjects included "landscapes, people, humor, Native Americans, fishing and hunting scenes.

"[2] His son joined him in the business by the early 1920s and the two worked together, producing artwork for calendars, safety posters, and advertising, with images including kids and dogs, the Boy Scouts of America, "Granny and Gramps" humor illustrations, fishing and hunting scenes.