Gustave Wiegand (American, 1870-1957) was born in Bremen, Germany in 1870.  He studied under Eugene Bracht at the Dresden Royal Academy and with William Chase in New York.  He was most famous for his American landscape paintings and exhibited extensively throughout the United States.  He was honored at the World’s Fair in St. Louis (1904) and by the National Academy of Design.  He died in Old Chatham, New York in 1957.

Studied:

Royal Acad., Berlin & Dresden, Germany; with William Chase, NY

Member:

National Art Club; Allied Artists of America; NY Society of Painters

Exhibited:

NAD, 1894-1900 (prize, 1905); AIC; PAFA Ann., 1900-10, 1916; Corcoran Gal. Annuals, 1907-08; St. Louis Expo, 1904 (medal); Soc. Independent Artists, 1917; Allied AA, 1937 (prize); World’s Fair, St. Louis (medal); Salons of Am.

Work:

BM; NAC; Newark Museum

Resources:

WW59; WW47; Falk, Exh. Record Series