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1902 - 1980. Known for: Naive figure-genre.
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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 American... Read full biography
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 American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY and the Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, NM.
Gustav Klumpp - Artist Info
About Gustav Klumpp: Keywords
Keywords (12)
Art Media
- •Oil Paint
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Folk Art, Folk Lore
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Portraits, Portraiture
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Figure Specialty
- •Genre Specialty
- •Outsider Art