This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Known as a California Impressionist influenced by Tonalism and also an
early modernist painter, Karl Neuhaus was also an active lecturer and
teacher. Neuhaus was born in Barmen (Wuppertal), Germany, in
1879. He apprenticed with a house painter while studying at the
Royal Art School in Kassel, graduating in 1899. He proceeded to
the Berlin Royal Institute for Applied Arts where he studied under Otto
Eckmann, Max Koch and Carl Brunner.
Neuhaus moved to San
Francisco, California, in 1904 where he established a studio across a
hallway from William Keith. While living in San Francisco he
exhibited with the San Francisco Art Association and became a member of
the Bohemian Club. After the San Francisco Earthquake in 1906 he
relocated to the Monterey peninsula, in the town of Pacific
Grove. There he was one of the founders of the Del Monte Art
Gallery, which was the first gallery in the United States to show
exclusively work by California artists.
Between 1907 and 1909
he taught at the San Francisco Institute of Art, and from 1908 to 1949
he taught at the University of California, Berkeley. At the
University of California, Berkeley he also served as the first chairman
of the Department of Art between 1923 and 1925. During the 1915
Panama-Pacific International Exposition Neuhaus served as Chairman of
the Advisory Committee for the West and was also an exhibitor.
As
a California landscapist he was known for his painted scenes of
Mendocino, the Sacramento Valley, Santa Barbara, Monterey, and San Luis
Obispo. He contributed to the art community by lecturing all over
the state and was also known as a writer. During his career his work
was exhibited at the Oakland Museum in 1981, and the Del Monte Gallery
from 1907-14.
Karl Neuhaus died in Berkeley, California in 1963.
Source:
Edan Hughes, Artists in California, 1786-1940
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Biography from William A. Karges Fine Art - Carmel:
| Karl Eugen Neuhaus was born in Germany in 1879, where he studied at the Royal Art Institutes in Kassel and Berlin. Neuhaus immigrated to San Francisco in 1904, where he opened a studio near William Keith.
When the earthquake destroyed his studio and home, Neuhaus moved to the Monterey area, where he helped found the Del Monte Art Gallery. Neuhaus’ greatest impact on California art was as a lecturer, author and teacher. Neuhaus taught at the University of California, Berkeley, for over 40 years, and was that school’s first head of their art department. |
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Karl Neuhaus is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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