Gustave Wolff
American, 1863 - 1935
German-born Gustave Wolff emigrated with his family to St. Louis, Missouri in 1866. Wolff began his artistic instruction at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts, where he was influenced by the Paris-trained painter Paul Cornoyer. This relationship led Wolff, among other students, to embrace a new tonal landscape style as well as new subject matter: the cityscape of New York. Though Wolff remained a resident of St. Louis, his trips to New York in the early decades of the twentieth century provided him with the settings for some of his most memorable paintings. His work is held in such notable institutions as the City Art Museum of Saint Louis, MO; Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL; and the Zigler Museum, Jennings, LA.
Painter and sculptor. Born in Germany, March 28,1863. Came to America in 1866. His family settled in Saint Louis, Missouri, where he received his first formal training.
By the later 1880s a landscape school was beginning to form in Saint Louis that would become the city's most distinctive artistic feature. It's members stressed poetic mood over topographical naturalism. Among them was Sylvester Annan, a Paris-trained painter of tonal landscapes, and, more important, Paul Cornoyer. Born in Saint Louis, Cornoyer studied at the School of Fine Arts in 1881, and later was recognized as the leader of the movement.
Gastav Wolff, a student of the School of Fine Arts, and especially of Cornoyer, followed his teacher as a specialist in Tonal landscapes. And Wolff, who remained a major landscapist in Saint Louis, was the teacher of Arthur Mitchell, also a delineator of poetic landscapes in the early twentieth century and long-time resident of that city.
Awards:
Silver Medal, Portland, OR, 1905
First Dolph prize, Competitive Exhibition, Saint Louis, 1906
Wednesday Club, Silver Medal, Society of Western Artists, 1907
Biography courtesy of Roughton Galleries, www.antiquesandfineart.com/roughton
By the later 1880s a landscape school was beginning to form in Saint Louis that would become the city's most distinctive artistic feature. It's members stressed poetic mood over topographical naturalism. Among them was Sylvester Annan, a Paris-trained painter of tonal landscapes, and, more important, Paul Cornoyer. Born in Saint Louis, Cornoyer studied at the School of Fine Arts in 1881, and later was recognized as the leader of the movement.
Gastav Wolff, a student of the School of Fine Arts, and especially of Cornoyer, followed his teacher as a specialist in Tonal landscapes. And Wolff, who remained a major landscapist in Saint Louis, was the teacher of Arthur Mitchell, also a delineator of poetic landscapes in the early twentieth century and long-time resident of that city.
Awards:
Silver Medal, Portland, OR, 1905
First Dolph prize, Competitive Exhibition, Saint Louis, 1906
Wednesday Club, Silver Medal, Society of Western Artists, 1907
Biography courtesy of Roughton Galleries, www.antiquesandfineart.com/roughton
