Sunset

 

Karl A. Baumgaertel

  (biography)

1931  

vintage chlorobromide photograph 

6 1/4 x 9" image 

pencil, lower right 

not stated 

titled and dated; inscribed: "To Miss Gertrude Bedke / With best wishes / Karl A. Baumbgaertel / 1931 

 

cream, toothy wove 

 

artist 

15778 

$800.00 

Karl A. Baumgaertel. American: (?-1958) was an accomplished salon photographer active in San Francisco and in Utah in the 1930s. He was a member of the Pictorial Photographers of America who exhibited in the Pittsburgh Salon of Photographic Art, the Chicago Camera Club Century of Progress International Photographic Salon (1933), and the Camera Pictorialists of Los Angeles. His photgraphic archive is at the Bancroft Library, Berkeley, CA This print is inscribed to "Miss Gertrude Bedke, with best wishes" and dated 1931.