Eugene Henry Bischoff was born in Pforzheim, Germany in 1880 and died in North Bennington, Vermont in 1954. E. H. Bischoff studied at the Art Student League, the pupil of George Bridgman, at Pratt Institute and at the California Society of Fine Arts. In 1941, he was the art director of the Vermont Gravure.

In the late 1930s, he began painting colorful landscapes in Taos. He spent many summers in Taos, but his first arrival time there is unknown. A painting by him of the Governor of the Taos Pueblo is dated 1937.