About Hans Paap

  • Biography

    The following is from Paul Bingham, Chairman of the Thunderbird Foundation for the Arts, Mount Carmel, Utah:

    Hans Paap was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1894. Paap worked as an art director for motion pictures in Berlin for two years. After WWI, he spent the next 13 years in Argentina and Brazil. Leaving South America, he moved to Hollywood in 1928 and was active in Southern California through the early 1930s. He then moved to New Mexico where he was associated with the Taos art colony. Paap died on an island in the Pacific in 1966.

    Exhibited: Friday Morning Club (Los Angeles), 1928; Biltmore Salon (Los Angeles), 1928, 1952; Pasadena Art Institute, 1929; Scripps College, 1949.

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