Paul Baum - Artist Info

About Paul Baum

  • Biography

    Paul Baum spent his youth in Meißen, where he began an apprenticeship as a flower painter at the porcelain manufacture at the age of 17. A leave of absence for the purpose of visiting the Dresden Kunstakademie resulted in his decision, in 1878, to abandon his apprenticeship and continue his studies in Weimar. Until 1878, as a student, he spent the summer months travelling to northern Germany, Holland and Flanders.

    Baum returned to Dresden after finishing his studies and joined Friedrich Preller the younger as a pupil. He joined the Dachau painter colony in 1888 and worked in Allach near Munich. During a trip to Paris in March 1890 Baum saw works by the Impressionists Monet, Pissarro and Sisley. ...

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