- Carl Gaertner
Infobox Artist
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name = Carl Gaertner
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caption = "Carl Gaertner" Rolf Stoll, oil on canvas.
birthdate = 1898
location =Cleveland ,Ohio
deathdate = 1952
deathplace =Cleveland ,Ohio
field =Painting ,Drawing ,Sculpture ,Printmaking
training =Cleveland School of Art , from 1920-1923 and taught there from 1925-1952
works = "Flying Ponies "Carl Gaertner (1898 - 1952) was an American
artist .Gaertner was born in
Cleveland in 1898 and remained there until his death in 1952. He studied at theCleveland Institute of Art , which was then called the Cleveland School of Art, from 1920-1923 and taught there from 1925-1952.Gaertner's subject matter varied, but certain themes recur in his work, including industrial subjects, with Cleveland as his model in the early part of his career. Other themes were
Provincetown ,West Virginia watercolors and oils, andChagrin Valley paintings. After 1935, Gaertner bought a farm in Chagrin Valley and began his series of paintings of that subject.The Akron Art Museum currently holds three paintings by Gaertner. Featured in the McDowell galleries is Riverside Plant" an oil on canvas painted in 1927-28 which was exhibited at the Cleveland Museum of Art Annual Exhibit of the Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen from April 25-June 3, 1928. Also in the Akron collection is Summer Kitchen a gouache on fiberboard painting done in 1947 and The Commuter"' an oil on fiberboard painting done in 1945 which shows a man standing on a train platform and is based on sketches Gaertner did while riding the train to New York City to visit his art dealer.
Gaertner was an important Cleveland artist who was just achieving national acclaim before his early death at the age of 54.
Further reading
*Shearer, C.F., W.H. Robinson, and M.D. Hall. (2000). "Carl Gaertner : a story of earth and steel." Cleveland: Cleveland Artists Foundation.
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