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At the age of 10, he moved to the United States with his family, and by age 17 he was working for an Engraving house while attending night classes at the Art Institute Of Chicago . He returned to Germany in 1904 to attend the Kunstgewerbe Schule in Munich where he studied Wood Carving and learned the techniques of wood block prints. After returning to the U.S. he began producing color woodcuts as early as 1908, earning his living as a graphic artist. He spent time in where Baumann won the gold medal for color woodcut. In 1918, he headed to the Southwest to inquire into the artists' colony of Taos , New Mexico . Thinking it too crowded and too social, he boarded the train which stopped in Santa Fe. Its Museum of Fine Art had opened the previous year and its open door policy for artists appealed to Baumann. In Santa Fe, Baumann became known as a master of woodcuts and Marionette -making, also producing Oils and Sculpture . His work depicted southwestern landscapes, ancient Indian Petroglyph s, scenes of Pueblo life, and gardens and orchards. He remained in Santa Fe for more than fifty years until his death in 1971.[http://libtextml.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=nmsfmfams02.xml Inventory of the Gustave Baumann Collection, 1918-1993], Rocky Mountain Online Archive
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