August Henry Nordhausen was active/lived in New York, New Jersey and is known as an oil painter, watercolorist, teacher and lecturer. He has commissioned works at the Pentagon in Washington DC, Syracuse University, the Royal Crown Cola Company in Columbus, Georgia and Long Island University.

He was a lecturer at the Museum of Modern Art and the Brooklyn Museum of Art and did demonstrations at Columbia University. He was Instructor of Portraits at Roerrich Museum and an art instructor in New York City high schools.

Memberships included the American Watercolor Society, which he served as President from 1959 to 1963; Allied Artists of American and the Audubon Society. He exhibited paintings at the Pennsylvania Academy, National Academy of Design, Art Institute of Chicago and Audubon Artists.