Walter Ufer

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Philbrook Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma. "The Listeners" (1920) by Walter Ufer.

Walter Ufer (born July 22, 1876 in Louisville , Kentucky , † August 2, 1936 in Santa Fe , New Mexico ) was an American painter.

Life

Walter Ufer was the son of immigrants from western Germany, the father was a master blacksmith. Initially, Ufer began an apprenticeship with an advertising painter in Louisville. He then studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Dresden and at the Art Institute of Chicago . During his time in Dresden, Walter Hofmann , who later became known as a librarian, was at times one of his close acquaintances. In 1911 he gave up his job in advertising to study painting in Munich and to travel to Europe and North Africa. On his return he moved to Taos , New Mexico, where a small artist colony had existed since 1898. The Taos Society of Artists exhibited in the USA and Europe from 1914. Ufer mainly painted portraits of Indians and landscapes of the southwest.

Walter Ufer was elected a member ( NA ) of the National Academy of Design in 1926.

literature

  • Walter Ufer (biography), in: Steven L. Grafe: A Western legacy. The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum , 2005, page 52 ( digitized )
  • Michael David Zellman: 300 years of American art , Vol. 2, p. 726, Wellfleet Press, 1987
  • Walter Ufer (biography), in: Mabel Dodge Luhan: Taos and its artists , page 168, Verlag Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1947

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Hofmann, With grave stylus and pen , Rainer Wunderlich Verlag Hermann Leins Stuttgart and Tübingen, 1948, page 233
  2. ↑ Walter Hofmann, With grave stylus and pen , Rainer Wunderlich Verlag Hermann Leins Stuttgart and Tübingen, 1948, page 232 ff.
  3. ↑ nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "U" / Ufer, Walter NA 1926 ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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 on June 18, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalacademy.org
personal data
SURNAME Ufer, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Louisville, Kentucky , USA
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 1936
Place of death Santa Fe , New Mexico