Painter. Son of the Bavarian landscape painter Charles J. Palmie and the flower painter Marie Palmie. Studied at the Munich Art Academy (teachers Ludwig von Herterich and Adolf Hengeler). He painted full-length portraits (later also of officers and soldiers).Became famous in the 1930s with portraits of industrial leaders and ‘Aryan-style’ women’s. Was a representative of the anti-modernism. In Garmisch-Partenkirchen he portrayed the composer Richard Strauss. In 1934 and 1935 participated in the ‘Grosse Münchener Kunstaustellung’. In 1942 he took part in the ‘Münchener Kunstausttellung, Maximilianeum’. In the Great German Art Exhibitions Palmie represented 23 works. They were bought for prices of up to 22,000 RM by Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Reichsleiter Franz Xaver Schwarz and the City of Munich. Deutsches Historisches Museum possess monumental painting ‘Segen der Arbeit’, bought by Hitler. ‘Vor der Schlacht’, bought by Hitler, is in the possession of the US Army Centre of Military History, Washington, DC. During the war Palmie was stationed with a company of war correspondents in Munich. After the war American officers commissioned him to paint numerous portraits. In 1957 he immigrated to Atlanta (Georgia). Again was famous as portrait painter of prominent persons. Among others he painted, president John F. Kennedy, president Lyndon B. Johnson, US General S. Patton and Grace Kelly (Princess of Monaco), after her marriage to Prince Rainier III of Monaco in 1956. In 1959 he also portraited Sam Rayburn, ‘Speaker of the House of Representatives’ in the USA (1940–1961).