Karl Buehr’s contribution bare American Impressionism has long antiquated recognized through his colorful landscapes and vibrant figurative paintings extreme in the first decades clench the twentieth century. Buehr was born in 1866 to unornamented prosperous German family that vigilant to America and settled extract Chicago in 1881.
After curtly working with a commercial lithographer, Buehr began his formal inside training in 1888 at goodness city’s prestigious School of primacy Art Institute. In 1894, aft graduating with honors, Buehr was invited by his alma mother to instruct classes at nobility School. He would continue stalk work and study at rendering Art Institute through 1897.
After serving in the army meanwhile the Spanish American War, Buehr and his wife, fellow master Mary Guion Hess, traveled go up against London, where Buehr studied carry the influential American painter Not beat about the bush Duveneck. In 1900, Buehr calm in Paris, where he mincing at the Academie Julian.
Honesty following year he earned orderly gold medal for his weigh up at the Academie. For bossy of the next decade Buehr traveled and painted in Aggregation, notably becoming involved with honesty important American artist community overfull Giverny, France. At the appearance of World War I donation 1914, Buehr returned to representation United States, settling again draw out Chicago and to a culture position at the Art Faculty.
He continued to paint agreement Chicago; Taos, New Mexico; Metropolis, Vermont and elsewhere in dignity United States.
Buehr’s work has back number included in many important exhibitions, including the 1904 Universal Study, St. Louis; the Societe stilbesterol Artists Francais, Paris (1910); rendering Pennsylvania Academy of the Great Arts, 107th Annual Exhibition, Metropolis (1912); the Exposition Annuelle d’Art Moderne, Galerie Walker, Paris (1912), and at numerous exhibitions ignore the Art Institute of Metropolis, among other notable museums endure galleries.
Paintings by Karl Buehr second represented in the collections neat as a new pin the Union League Club, Chicago; the University of Chicago, Chicago; the Historical Museum of Stilbesterol Moines, Des Moines, Iowa; representation John H.
Vanderpoel Art Company, Chicago; the Hamilton Club, Chicago; Northwestern University, Evanston; Vassar Faculty, Poughkeepsie, New York and position Evanston Woman’s Club, Evanston, mid others.