Adolf Baumgartner - Artist Info

About Adolf Baumgartner

Name variants

Adolf Konstantin Baumgartner-Stoiloff, Adolf Baumgartner-Stooff, C Stoiloff, Constantin Stoiloff, Konstantin Stoilov-Baumgartner
  • Biography from the Archives of askART

    Adolf Baumgartner biographical photo
    The Bulgarian artist Adolf Baumgartner-Stoiloff was born in 1850 in Linz, Austria. According to Russian sources, in the 1880s he studied at St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Fine Arts. He was very well known, particularly as a horse painter.

    From around 1890 to the early 1900s his Russian scenes with cossacks and hunters were frequently reproduced in various European magazines. He is known to have worked under various pseudonyms signing his paintings with "A.Baumgartner-Stoiloff" , "Stoiloff", "Constantin Stoiloff" or "C.Stoiloff".

    Collections
    The artist's works are in museums of Europe and private collections. His compositions with horses are in great demand in the antiquarian market. Many works can be found stored in the South-African collection of George Bibikov - the representative of an old noble family and the descendant of Russian emigrants.

    Source:
    Sphinx Fine Art
    http://www.sphinxfineart.com/Baumgartner-Stoiloff-Adolf-Constantin-DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=45&tabindex=44&artistid=29688
  • Biography from Dom Aukcyjny Ostoya

    Adolf Baumgartner was an artist of Austrian origin. He graduated from the Academy in Vienna.

    Baumgartner created in Munich, and is known mainly for scenes with racing horses in the type of Polish landscape painting typical of Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski and other Polish artists working in Munich.

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