Gustave Baumann
| male | 1881-1971 |
| Life city: Nashville, IN |
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| Work city: Nashville, IN |
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| Styles: Block Prints Engravings Etchings Graphics Illustrations Landscapes Watercolors |
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- Brown County
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Emigrated to Chicago from his native Germany as a young boy. Worked in Brown County during his early career. Moved to the West in the 1910s, where he was one of the founders of the Santa Fe art colony. Known for his exquisite color woodblocks.
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Gustave Baumann (1881-1971) was born in Germany, but immigrated to Chicago with his family in 1891. He worked at a commercial engraving house during the day and attended night classes at the Art Institute of Chicago.
He went back to Germany in 1905 to study at Kunstgewerbe Schuele in Munich.
After returning to Chicago, he relocated to Brown County, Indiana, in 1910. His Brown County woodcuts won a gold medal for printmaking in the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.
He exhibited widely at Herron, the 1911 Paris Salon, The Art Institute of Chicago, and later throughout the United States.
He left for Santa Fe in 1918 where he married and remained until his death.
Most of his work captures the southwest after his brown County days. He is considered the American master of the color woodcut, but also worked with oils, gouache, and created sculpture.
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