Broken Barriers by Karl A. Baumgaertel

Broken Barriers by Karl A. Baumgaertel

Broken Barriers

Karl A. Baumgaertel

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Title

Broken Barriers

 
Artist
Year
c. 1930  
Technique
vintage chlorobromide photograph 
Image Size
8 11/16 x 6 3/16" image 
Signature
pencil, lower right (with a small cutout profile of the artist attached) 
Edition Size
not stated 
Annotations
titled in pencil 
Reference
 
Paper
cream, toothy wove 
State
 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
15775 
Price
$700.00 
Description

San Francisco Bay Area-based Karl August Baumgaertel was born on November 28, 1893. He was a Corporal in the US Marine Corps in World War I. He became an accomplished salon photographer in the 1920s and '30s. Despite a prolific career very little is found on his life or education. However, it is known that he was a member of the Associated Camera Clubs of America (based in San Francisco) and the Pictorial Photographers of America (PPA), for whom he was also the Pacific Coast Executive for a time. He showed throughout the United States, including the Pittsburgh Salon of Photographic Art, the Chicago Camera Club Century of Progress International Photographic Salon (1933), and the Camera Pictorialists of Los Angeles. He was a charter member of the Photographic Society of America, and he showed at the Golden Gate International Exhibition of 1939. In addition to his professional camera work, he wrote the column "In Focus" for View Finder magazine.

His photgraphic archive is at the Bancroft Library, Berkeley, CA, and focuses on cityscapes and landscapes of the West, with special attention to the San Francisco Bay Area and the geological formations of the Southwest. He died in San Francisco on October 19, 1958 and is buried in Golden Gate National Cemetary in San Bruno, CA.

 

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