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1876 Huckeswagen, Germany - 1936 Santa Fe, New Mexico. Known for: Social realist landscape, figure, portrait and Indian genre painting, lithography.
Born in Germany to parents who had immigrated the next year to Louisville, Kentucky, Walter Ufer became one of the founders of the Taos Society of Artists and achieved much distinction as a painter... Read full biography
Born in Germany to parents who had immigrated the next year to Louisville, Kentucky, Walter Ufer became one of the founders of the Taos Society of Artists and achieved much distinction as a painter of Pueblo Indian genre. He was a complex, enigmatic personality, claiming that he was born in... Read full biography
Born in Germany to parents who had immigrated the next year to Louisville, Kentucky, Walter Ufer became one of the founders of the Taos Society of Artists and achieved much distinction as a painter of Pueblo Indian genre. He was a complex, enigmatic personality, claiming that he was born in Louisville rather than Germany and suffering chronic alcoholism. During periods of sobriety, he painted powerful canvases of New Mexico Indian genre, especially of the Taos Pueblo. He showed early art talent... Read full biography
Born in Germany to parents who had immigrated the next year to Louisville, Kentucky, Walter Ufer became one of the founders of the Taos Society of Artists and achieved much distinction as a painter of Pueblo Indian genre. He was a complex, enigmatic personality, claiming that he was born in Louisville rather than Germany and suffering chronic alcoholism. During periods of sobriety, he painted powerful canvases of New Mexico Indian genre, especially of the Taos Pueblo. He showed early art talent and was encouraged by his father, a master gunsmith and by his teachers. After grammar school, he apprenticed to a lithography firm where he learned basic design principles. He spent seven years in Europe and earned his formal art education at... Read full biography
Born in Germany to parents who had immigrated the next year to Louisville, Kentucky, Walter Ufer became one of the founders of the Taos Society of Artists and achieved much distinction as a painter of Pueblo Indian genre. He was a complex, enigmatic personality, claiming that he was born in Louisville rather than Germany and suffering chronic alcoholism. During periods of sobriety, he painted powerful canvases of New Mexico Indian genre, especially of the Taos Pueblo. He showed early art talent and was encouraged by his father, a master gunsmith and by his teachers. After grammar school, he apprenticed to a lithography firm where he learned basic design principles. He spent seven years in Europe and earned his formal art education at Germany's Royal Academy of Fine Arts where he became friends with American artists, Joseph Henry Sharp and Ernest Blumenschein. In 1911, he m... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Moving Scenic Panorama Painting, 3-D Diorama
- •Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art Media
Art Style
- •Impressionism Before 1940
- •Realist, Representational, Naturalist Style
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Indian Figure Prior to 1940
- •Indians, Native American Specialty
- •Indians, Native Americans
- •Landscape
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •National Parks and/or State Parks
- •Nude Figure, Nudity
- •Panoramic View and/or Large Scale Panoramic Artwork
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Self-Portrait
- •Still Life
- •Western Art: Cowboys, Indians, Horses, Ranch Scenes
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Africa
- •Europe
- •Germany Before 1900
- •Grand Canyon, Arizona
- •Italy Before World War I
- •New Mexico Before 1940
- •Santa Fe, New Mexico Before 1940
- •Taos, New Mexico Before 1940
Art Association
- •Boston Art Club
- •Chicago Society of Artists
- •National Academy of Design, Elected Member
- •National Arts Club, New York
- •New Mexico Painters
- •Salmagundi Club, New York City
- •Salons of America
- •Society of Independent Artists-
- •Taos Society of Artists
Art School
- •German Academies Before 1900
- •J. Francis Smith School of Art, Chicago-Student
- •School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •Benjamin Altman Prize, National Academy of Design
- •Isidor Gold Medal, National Academy of Design
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
- •Anschutz Collection
- •C. R. Smith Collection-Western
- •Chicago Union League Club
- •Harmsen Western Art Collection
- •John F Eulich Collection
- •Santa Fe Railroad Commissioned Art
- •William Foxley Collection-Western
Added Description
- •Figure Specialty
- •Genre Specialty
- •Married to an Artist
- •WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Artist Colony
- •Taos Art Colony
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Babcock Galleries, New York City
- •Stendahl Galleries, Los Angeles
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •AskART Panama Pacific Expo
- •Panama Pacific Exhibition of 1915
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Chicago Society of Artists-
- •National Academy of Design, New York
- •Palette & Chisel Club, Chicago-
- •Salmagundi Club, New York City-
- •Salons of America-
- •Society of Independent Artists--
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts