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Gustave Baumann
Color Woodcut
13x13 inches
Gustave Baumann
Color Woodcut
13x13 inches
| Born in Madgeburg, Germany, Gustave Baumann is best known for prints made from his detailed hand-carved woodblocks.His family emigrated to the United States when he was a child, and he grew up in Chicago. He returned to Germany tostudy in Munich at the Kunstgewerbe Schule and then took further training at the Art Institute of Chicago. He then spenttime in Indiana, and is much associated with the artists who gravitated to Brown County. In that state, Bauman madewoodblocks illustrating work by Indiana authors.Baumann and several other artists decided to see first hand the reportedly light, clear air of New Mexico that they hadbeen hearing about from other Chicago artists, and in 1918, he settled in Santa Fe where, for over fifty years, heparticipated in the art community. He created colored wood blocks from which he made prints, and also became a carverof saints and marionettes, working the the Marionnette Theater, carving his 'little people'. He also did numerous paintingsin bright colors.His woodcut subjects are church figures, scenes of sacred Indian pictographs, and landscapes including the GrandCanyon. During the 1930s, he was WPA co-ordinator for Santa Fe. |