Artist

Gustave Klumpp

born Baiserbronn, Germany 1902-died New York City 1974
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Also known as
  • Gustav Klumpp
Born
Baiersbronn, Germany
Died
New York, New York, United States
Biography

In 1966, two years after his retirement as a compositor and Linotype operator, Klumpp visited Brooklyn's Red Hook Senior Center seeking activities and companionship to fill his days. The director suggested that he join the art group and try his hand at painting. His first work was a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. His next works were landscapes. Soon he began to develop his fantasies into paintings. In 1972, bachelor Klumpp wrote, "My philosophy of art painting which is expressed in the visualization of painting beautiful girls in the nude or semi-nude and in fictitious surroundings including some other paintings of dream like nature."

Lynda Roscoe Hartigan Made with Passion: The Hemphill Folk Art Collection in the National Museum of American Art (Washington, D.C. and London: National Museum of American Art with the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990)

Works by this artist (4 items)

Walter Gay, Novembre, Etaples, ca. 1885, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1977.111
Novembre, Etaples
Dateca. 1885
oil on canvas
On view
Henry Wolf, Walter Gay, Charity, 1894, wood engraving on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1973.130.105
Charity
Artist
Date1894
wood engraving on paper
Not on view
Walter Gay, Untitled (Interior View), n.d., oil on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Harper Fletcher in memory of Mr. and Mrs. James Wolcott Wadsworth, 1971.283
Untitled (Interior View)
Daten.d.
oil on paperboard
Not on view
Walter Gay, Boudoir, Chateau de Chaalis, 1914, oil on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Harper Fletcher in memory of Mr. and Mrs. James Wolcott Wadsworth, 1971.284
Boudoir, Chateau de Chaalis
Date1914
oil on paperboard
Not on view