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Paul Baum (Meißen 1859 - San Gimignano 1932) - Sell & Buy

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German landscape painter. After beginnings in the tradition of the Barbizon school and an Impressionist phase inspired by C. Pissarro and Th. van Rijsselberghe, B. developed into one of the most important German representatives of Neo-Impressionism. After training as a porcelain painter in Meissen, he studied at the Dresden academy under Fr. Preller in 1877 and in Weimar under Th. Hagen from 1878-87. For a time B. worked at the Dachau artists' colony. After extensive travels he joined the Dresden, Munich and Berlin secession. B. lived in the Netherlands 1890-1908, 1910-14 in Florence and S. Gimignano, where he finally settled in 1924. He held professorships in Dresden and Kassel; among his awards was the Villa Romana Prize. Mus.: Berlin (Nat.-Gal.), Dresden (Gemäldegal. Neue Meister), Munich (Lenbachhaus), Leipzig, Marburg a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit a. others.

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