Paul Baum

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Paul Baum, etching by Hermann Kätelhön

Paul Baum (born September 22, 1859 in Meißen , † May 15, 1932 San Gimignano , Italy) was a German impressionist painter , draftsman and graphic artist. His style of painting developed from the style of the Barbizon school through Impressionism to Pointillism , of which he was one of the few representatives in Germany. The tree, who also works as a teacher at various art schools, is particularly known for depicting landscapes in Flanders and the Netherlands .

Life

Weimar - After the Rain (1883)
Angler on the Warnow (1886)

Paul Baum, who grew up in Meißen, initially began training as a flower painter at the Royal Porcelain Manufactory in his hometown. In 1877 he decided to study painting with Friedrich Preller at the Dresden Art Academy . A year later, however, he switched to the art school in Weimar , where he studied with Theodor Hagen until 1887 . During his studies, Baum traveled to Mecklenburg and Hamburg as well as the Netherlands and Flanders. In 1888 Paul Baum stayed temporarily in Allach near Munich , where he joined the Dachau artists' colony and made friends with the painters Max Arthur Stremel and Carl Bantzer , who were also from Central Germany . During a trip to Paris with Max Arthur Stremel in March 1890, Baum got to know the work of the impressionists Claude Monet , Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley . Baum then left Dachau and settled in Knokke , Belgium, for four years . Here he met Camille Pissarro and the Belgian pointillist painter Théo van Rysselberghe personally in 1894 . In the same year Baum went to Dresden and became a member of the Dresden Secession . However, in 1895 he left Dresden again and settled in Sint Anna ter Muiden near Sluis in the south of the Netherlands , where he lived until 1908. This stay was interrupted by numerous trips to Berlin, southern France, Italy and Turkey. In Sluis he met Ernst Oppler , who also worked there as an impressionist open-air painter.

In 1902, Baum became a member of the Berlin Secession . In 1909 he became a member of the Neue Künstlervereinigung München (NKVM), in whose first exhibition he took part. In the same year, Baum received the Villa Romana Prize , which included a one-year stay in Rome . Baum then traveled to Tuscany, where he stayed for four years. Here he lived in San Gimignano and Florence . After the outbreak of war in 1914, Baum returned to Germany and became a professor at the Dresden Art Academy . In 1915 Baum lived temporarily in the Willingshausen painters' colony and then went to Neustadt near Marburg . After Baum's friend Carl Bantzer was appointed professor at the Kassel Art Academy in 1918 , Baum followed him as a professor of landscape painting. In 1921 Baum bought a house in Marburg, which was to become his permanent residence from then on. From 1924, however, he stayed mainly in the Tuscan town of San Gimignano, where he died of pneumonia in 1932 . His honors, which he received in old age, included the award of an honorary doctorate from the Philipps University of Marburg in 1927 and honorary membership of the academic senate of the Dresden Art Academy in 1929.

Paul Baum was a member of the German Association of Artists .

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Paul Baum is considered to be a representative of German Impressionism , from the French Impressionists he adopted the lighter colors and a comma-shaped brushstroke in his works. Stimulated by the encounter with Théo van Rysselberghe , he painted from 1900 in the style of pointillism ("dot painting"), a variant of French Neo-Impressionism. He and Curt Herrmann are considered to be the only significant artists of this style in Germany.

Some of the more well-known works by Paul Baum include landscapes with motifs from Flanders and the Netherlands. Characteristic here are his depictions of polder landscapes with canals and wicker, which he applied punctually and meticulously to the canvas with a brush. In addition to oil paintings, his work also includes numerous drawings, etchings, color lithographs and watercolors.

  • Works in the style of French pointillism

  • Densely built village street in Holland, in the afternoon sun (1899 - 1905)

  • Sint Anna ter Muiden, Weiden am Bach (1900)

  • Spring (1904)

  • Landscape near Hyères (1909)

Selection of works

  • After the rain , 1883, National Gallery, Berlin
  • Early spring near Nieder-Grunstedt , 1883, Castle Museum, Weimar
  • Am Asbach before Weimar , 1885, City Museum, Bautzen
  • Winter landscape on the Ilm , 1885, City Museum, Erfurt
  • Landscape near Weimar , 1886, Schäfer Museum, Schweinfurt
  • Way to Nieder-Grunstedt , 1886, Castle Museum, Weimar
  • Boys and men fishing on the Warnow , 1886, Castle Museum, Weimar
  • Village landscape near Weimar , 1888, City Museum, Erfurt
  • Early spring landscape near Dachau , 1888, City Museum, Erfurt
  • Landscape from Dachau , 1888, University Museum for Art and Cultural History, Marburg
  • Path between harvested fields near Dachau , around 1889, University Museum for Art and Cultural History, Marburg
  • Early winter near Meissen , 1890, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, Dresden
  • Edge of the forest in early spring , 1890, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, Dresden
  • Flemish farmhouses , 1891, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, Dresden
  • Spring landscape on the Belgian-Dutch border , around 1891, University Museum for Art and Cultural History, Marburg
  • Mourning, motif from the Flemish plains , 1893, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, Dresden
  • Flemish farmhouses in the snow , 1894, Städtisches Museum, Chemnitz
  • Washerwomen on a Dutch canal , around 1894, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, Dresden
  • March snow , around 1895, Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig
  • First snow , around 1895, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, Dresden
  • Dense grove of trees on the bank of a Dutch canal , 1896, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
  • Canal supervision with willows , around 1896, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, Dresden
  • Wiesenweg , around 1899, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, Dresden
  • Weiden am Bach , 1900, National Gallery, Berlin
  • Trees on the Dutch Canal in late autumn , 1903, University Museum for Art and Cultural History, Marburg
  • Street scene with a fountain in St. Anna , around 1905, Kunsthalle, Kiel
  • Dorfstrasse in Holland , around 1905, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, Dresden
  • View of Sluis , around 1906, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, Dresden
  • Spring landscape , around 1906, University Museum for Art and Cultural History, Marburg
  • Spring landscape in Belgium , 1906, University Museum for Art and Cultural History, Marburg
  • Autumn sun , around 1906, Municipal Museum, Gelsenkirchen
  • At the exit of the village , around 1906, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
  • Tuscan landscape in spring , around 1912, Folkwang Museum, Essen
  • Tuscan landscape in spring , around 1912, University Museum for Art and Cultural History, Marburg
  • Hill with homestead in S. Gimignano , University Museum for Art and Cultural History, Marburg
  • Dutch canal landscape , University Museum for Art and Cultural History, Marburg
  • Wide Tuscan landscape , Kunsthalle, Hamburg
  • View of San Gimignano , Lower Saxony State Museum, Hanover

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Baum, Paul ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed November 30, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de

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SURNAME Baum, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Meissen
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1932
Place of death San Gimignano