Gustave Baumann

Gustave Baumann was born in Madgeburg, Germany and emigrated to the United States when he was a child. The family settled in Chicago at at the age of sixteen he began working full time at an engraving studio while attending classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. Baumann is best known for his woodblock prints of the American landscape. His work is influenced by the bold, innovative designs he studied in Munich in the early 1900's at the School of Arts and Crafts. In 1918 he moved to Sante Fe where he lived and worked for fifty years. Baumann's work was not limited to woodblock prints. He also produced oils, and a series of marionettes for the communities annual Christmas shows. A book entitled Frijoles Canyon Pictographs was honored with the Fifty Books of the Year award in 1939. Gustave Baumanns work is in the collections of the Smithsonian Institute and the National Gallery, Washington D.C.; Indiana State Museum; Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco. His work won several prestigious awards, including a gold medal from the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.

Gustave Baumann Images:
Cottonwood In Tassel