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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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- The Taos Society of ArtistsAugust 2005Wierich & PorterAmerican Art Review
- Best WesternJuly 2005Dorfman, JohnArt & Auction
- The 21st Annual Spring Arts CelebraApril 2004Editor, Art-TalkArt-Talk
- The Taos Art Museum & Fechin HouseApril 2004Porter, Dean AAmerican Art Review
- Chicago and the Art of the New FronOctober 2003Barter, J.A. & Kelly, S.American Art Review
- The New Gold RushMay 2003Kinsella, EileenARTnews
- On the Scene: Reports from WestJune 2002Editors, Southwest ArtSouthwest Art
- Art EventsMay 2002Editors, Southwest ArtSouthwest Art
- Panhandle-Plains Historical MuseumDecember 2001Grauer, Michael JAmerican Art Review
- Museum of the SouthwestDecember 2001Holeva, Daniel HAmerican Art Review
- American Views from Rockford MuseumJune 2001Houston, JoeAmerican Art Review
- The Anschutz CollectionNovember 2000Hunt, Sarah AnschutzSouthwest Art
- Painters and the American WestOctober 2000Troccoli, Joan CarpenterAmerican Art Review
- Reevaluating Walter UferApril 2000Porter, Dean ASouthwest Art
- Taos Artists & Their PatronsAugust 1999Campbell, SuzanAmerican Art Review
- AuctionAugust 1999Editor, Art-talkArt-Talk
- Taos Artists & Their PatronsJune 1999Campbell, SusanAmerican Art Review
- The Roaring TwentiesApril 1999May, StephenSouthwest Art
- The Founding of the Taos Art ColonyApril 1999Zieselman, EllenAmerican Art Review