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Birth
1866 (Germany)
Death
1952 (Chicago, Illinois)
Lived/Active
Illinois/Vermont / France
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painter-impressionist landscape, figure, portrait, etcher
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Impressionists Pre 1940
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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| One of the early Chicago artists to adopt Impressionism, Karl Buehr became a figure and landscape painter. As a figure painter, his specialty became "gorgeously colored images of young women on porches overlooking brilliant summertime gardens." (Kennedy 98) His later work often showed a female figure with serious expression engaging the viewer with a direct stare. In his landscapes, he was noted for his strong coloration. In a December 1896 student exhibition at the Art Institu (showing 500 of 3082 characters). |
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