Gustav Klumpp rejected traditional portraiture in favor of (in his own words) "beautiful girls in the nude or semi-nude in fictitious surroundings, including some other paintings of dreamlike nature." Klumpp did not begin to paint until 1966, after retiring from a career in the printing trade. He worked in oil and acrylic on canvas and completed about fifty paintings, which he was reluctant to sell. His balanced compositions are flat, colorful and liberated from realistic notions of scale. In 1970, Klumpp's art was shown at the Community Gallery of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY. Klumpp's paintings have since been included in a number of group exhibitions and publications and have entered the permanent collections of the...