biographie de Bernhard GUTMANN (1869-1936)

Birth place: Hamburg, Germany

Death place: NYC

Addresses: Lynchburg, VA, 1892; New Canaan, CT; NYC

Profession: Painter, etcher, teacher

Studied: NYC, 1899; Düsseldorf and Karlsruhe (Germany) and in Paris; in Europe again in 1907

Exhibited: PAFA, 1912-13; Armory Show, 1913; Corcoran Gal, 1914; AIC; S. Indp. A., 1917-19, 1931; Salons of Am., 1929, 1932; Beacon Hill FA, NYC, 1998; New Canaan Hist. Soc., 1998 (retrospective of his Silvermine paintings)

Member: Allied AA; SC; Knockers Club, New Canaan, 1913, which became the Silvermine Gld. Artists (founder, 4th pres.); Darien G. Seven Artists;

Work: NAD; CGA; AIC; PAFA; Cleveland MA; Alfred Univ., NY

Comments: He came to U.S. and settled in Lynchburg, VA in 1892; in 1899 he became an illustrator and publisher in NYC. When Gutmann returned from further study in Europe, he joined the artists colony at Silvermine (CT) and remained there from 1913-39. Positions: teacher, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, 1895-97; supervisor of drawing, Lynchburg public schools.

Sources: WW33; Wright, Artists in Virgina Before 1900; article, Antiques & Arts Weekly (May 15, 1998, p.34); Art in Conn.: Between World Wars; Falk, Exh. Record Series; Brown, The Story of the Armory Show; more recently, see biography on Gutmann by Percy North (1998);