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Gustave Baumann

American printmaker and painter

Gustave Baumann

Born	(1881-06-27)June 27, 1881 Magdeburg, Germany
Died	October 8, 1971(1971-10-08) (aged 90) Santa Fe, New Mexico
Nationality	German, American
Alma mater	Königliche Kunstgewerbeschule München
Known for	Printmaking, marionettes, painting

Gustave Baumann (June 27, 1881 – October 8, 1971) was an American printmaker and painter, and one of the leading figures of the color woodcut revival in America.^[1] His works have been shown at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, and the New Mexico Museum of Art.^[2] He is also recognized for his role in the 1930s as area coordinator of the Public Works of Art Project of the Works Progress Administration.^[3]

Biography

Gustave Baumann was born in Magdeburg, Germany, and moved to the United States in 1891 with his family. By age 17 he was working for an engraving house while attending night classes at the Ar

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Gustave Baumann

Gustave Baumann was one of America's leading creators of color woodblock prints in the first half of the twentieth century. The son of a craftsman, Baumann emigrated from his native Germany to the United States as a child, settling in Chicago with his family. To help support them, he left school at age sixteen to work in a commercial printing shop while attending the Art Institute of Chicago's prestigious school at night. Baumann returned to Germany in 1905-06 to study at the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Applied Arts) in Munich, determined to become a printmaker. Supporting himself as a designer of product labels, he made his first limited edition prints in 1909; the following year his work was first exhibited at the Art Institute.

From the beginning, Baumann's prints were distinguished by a strong sense of formal design. His early prints, which included interior scenes of craftsmen at work, demonstrate the influence of German printmaking tradition, stressing powerful black outlining of discrete color areas. Landscape and nature dominated Baumann's work after 1

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Gustave Baumann was born in Magdeburg, Germany on June 27, 1881. In 1891 his family set sail on a steamer bound for the United States. After their arrival in New York they took a train to Chicago to begin a new life. Baumann was ten years old at the time but manhood was just around the corner. With the departure of his father from the family in 1896, young Gustave felt the responsibility of earning a living. With an ad in hand and drawings under his arm, he knocked on the doors of the commercial engraving houses in Chicago. He was hired as an apprentice at the Franklin Engraving Company and his career in art began. Baumann also worked at the Zeese, Gandy, and Bruner engraving companies but he soon calculated that he could make more for himself if he opened his own business. In 1901, he opened his studio at 667 Osgood Street in Chicago. Night classes at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago fueled his desire to go back to Europe for an education that would free him from the commercial grind. In March 1904, he became a United States citizen and in August of the same