Birger Sandzen Memorial Gallery
401 N 1st Street
P.O. Box 348
Lindsborg, KS 67456-0348
P.O. Box 348
Lindsborg, KS 67456-0348
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Museums page for Conrad Buff ((1886 - 1975)), known for Landscape painting, printmaking, illustration. Showing 13 museum collections and exhibitions.
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1886 Speicher, Switzerland - 1975 Laguna Hills, California. Known for: Landscape painting, printmaking, illustration.
Born in Speicher, Switzerland, the son of an Alpine farmer, Conrad Buff, by the age of forty, had an established reputation as an artist, primarily realistic paintings that expressed his love of the... Read full biography
Born in Speicher, Switzerland, the son of an Alpine farmer, Conrad Buff, by the age of forty, had an established reputation as an artist, primarily realistic paintings that expressed his love of the American Southwest. He was apprenticed at age 14 to an uncle, a baker, and confectioner, and baking... Read full biography
Born in Speicher, Switzerland, the son of an Alpine farmer, Conrad Buff, by the age of forty, had an established reputation as an artist, primarily realistic paintings that expressed his love of the American Southwest. He was apprenticed at age 14 to an uncle, a baker, and confectioner, and baking became a hobby with him for the rest of his life. He also learned the trade of lace designing and making, which ultimately influenced his pointellist painting style, and which was then a major trade... Read full biography
Born in Speicher, Switzerland, the son of an Alpine farmer, Conrad Buff, by the age of forty, had an established reputation as an artist, primarily realistic paintings that expressed his love of the American Southwest. He was apprenticed at age 14 to an uncle, a baker, and confectioner, and baking became a hobby with him for the rest of his life. He also learned the trade of lace designing and making, which ultimately influenced his pointellist painting style, and which was then a major trade in Switzerland. But he felt constrained with having to copy patterns, and in the early 1900s went to Munich, where he lived the heady life of a young man. However, money ran out, and at age 19, he came to America and took the first train West. He was... Read full biography
Born in Speicher, Switzerland, the son of an Alpine farmer, Conrad Buff, by the age of forty, had an established reputation as an artist, primarily realistic paintings that expressed his love of the American Southwest. He was apprenticed at age 14 to an uncle, a baker, and confectioner, and baking became a hobby with him for the rest of his life. He also learned the trade of lace designing and making, which ultimately influenced his pointellist painting style, and which was then a major trade in Switzerland. But he felt constrained with having to copy patterns, and in the early 1900s went to Munich, where he lived the heady life of a young man. However, money ran out, and at age 19, he came to America and took the first train West. He was briefly on a Wisconsin ranch, working as a sheep herder and then for ten years roamed the West doing odd j... Read full biography
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About Conrad Buff: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (13)
All MuseumsBowers Museum
2002 North Main Street
Santa Ana, CA 92706Chaffey Community Museum of Art
217 S Lemon Ave
Ontario, CA 91761Laguna Art Museum
307 Cliff Drive
Laguna Beach, CA 92651Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036Museum of Art at Brigham Young University
North Campus Drive
Box 23300
Provo, UT 84602-1400Oakland Museum of California
1000 Oak Street
Oakland, CA 94607Phoenix Art Museum
1625 North Central Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85004-1685San Diego Museum of Art
Balboa Park, 1450 el Prado
Po 122107
San Diego, CA 92101The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64111-1873UCI Institute and Museum for California Art
18881 von Karman Avenue
Suite 100
Irvine, CA 92612University of Michigan Museum of Art, UMMA
525 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1354Weisman Art Museum
The University of Minnesota
333 East River Road
Minneapolis, MN 55455