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Paul Baum (22 September 1859 in Meissen – 15 May 1932 in San Gimignano), was a German painter, draftsman and printmaker. He was the most important representative of Neo-Impressionism in Germany.[1]

Life

He began as a flower painter at the Royal Porcelain Factory.[2] In 1877, he decided to study with Friedrich Preller at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. A year later, he switched to the Weimar Saxon-Grand Ducal Art School, where he studied under Theodor Hagen until 1887. During his studies, he travelled to Mecklenburg and Hamburg as well as Holland and Flanders. In 1888, he stayed briefly at the art colony in Dachau District.[1]

During a trip to Paris in 1890, he had his first encounter with French Impressionism. Afterwards, he left Dachau and spent four years in Knokke, Belgium, where he became friends with Camille Pissarro and the Belgian pointillist painter Théo van Rysselberghe. In 1894, he returned to Dresden and became part of the Dresden Secession.[2] However, he continued to be restless and, in 1895, moved to Sint Anna ter Muiden near Sluis, where he lived until 1908. Even so, his stay there was interrupted by numerous trips to Berlin, the south of France, Italy and Turkey.

While visiting Berlin in 1902, he became a member of the Berlin Secession. In 1909, he joined the Neue Künstlervereinigung München (N.K.V.M.) and participated in their first exhibition. That same year, he received the Villa Romana Prize, which included a one-year stay in Rome. He then travelled to Tuscany, remaining there for four years in San Gimignano and, then, Florence. After the outbreak of war in 1914, he returned to Germany and became a professor at the Academy.[2] But, after a year, he was again on the move.

He stayed briefly at the Willingshäuser Art Colony and went from there to Neustadt near Marburg. When his friend, Carl Bantzer, was appointed professor at the Kunsthochschule Kassel in 1918, Baum took his place as a teacher of landscape painting. In 1921, he bought a house in Marburg, intending it to be his permanent residence but, from 1924 on, lived mostly in San Gimignano. He died of pneumonia there in 1932.[2]

Selected paintings

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  Weimar in the Rain (1883)
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  River Landscape in Mecklenburg (1895)
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  Sint Anna ter Muiden (c.1902)
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  Landscape near Hyères (1909)

References

Further reading

• Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Vol. VII, 1993, S. 576.
• Andreas Bauer: Ein Baum ist noch kein Wald. Überlegungen zur Bedeutung Paul Baums in ästhetisch-künstlerischer Hinsicht, in: ZKK 47 (2005), S. 23–42
• Carl Hitzeroth Paul Baum, ein deutscher Maler, Verlag Wolfgang Jess, Dresden 1937
• Wolfram Hitzeroth: Paul Baum : (1859–1932); ein Leben als Landschaftsmaler. Hitzeroth, Marburg 1988, ISBN 3-925944-26-5
• Simone Wiechers: Paul Baum (1859–1932)—Entwicklung und frühe Rezeption eines Neoimpressionisten. Vdg-Verlag, Weimar 2007, ISBN 3-89739-553-3

External links

• Literature by and about Paul Baum (artist) in the German National Library catalogue

На других языках

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[de] Paul Baum

Paul Baum (* 22. September 1859 in Meißen; † 15. Mai 1932 San Gimignano, Italien) war ein Maler des deutschen Impressionismus, Zeichner und Grafiker. Seine Malweise entwickelte sich vom Stil der Schule von Barbizon über den Impressionismus hin zum Pointillismus, zu dessen wenigen Vertretern in Deutschland er gehörte. Der auch als Lehrer an verschiedenen Kunsthochschulen tätige Baum ist besonders für Darstellungen von Landschaften in Flandern und den Niederlanden bekannt.

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- [en] Paul Baum (artist)

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[es] Paul Baum

Paul Baum (nacido el 22. septiembre de 1859 en Meissen ; muerto el 15 mayo de 1932 en San Gimignano, Italia) fue un pintor, dibujante y grabador impresionista alemán. Su estilo de pintura se desarrolló desde el estilo de la Escuela de Barbizon pasando por el impresionismo hasta el puntillismo, del cual fue uno de los pocos representantes en Alemania. También trabajó como profesor en varias escuelas de arte y es particularmente conocido por sus representaciones de paisajes en Flandes y los Países Bajos.

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[fr] Paul Baum

Paul Baum (né le 22 septembre 1859 à Meissen, mort le 15 mai 1932 à San Gimignano) est un peintre allemand.

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[ru] Баум, Пауль

Пауль Баум (нем. Paul Baum; 22 сентября 1859, Мейсен — 15 мая 1932, Сан-Джиминьяно) — художник, рисовальщик и график, один из крупнейших представителей постимпрессионизма в Германии).

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