AW612: Gustave Adolph Wiegand, Summer Landscape - Early 20th C Oil on Canvas

Gustave Adolph Wiegand (New York/Germany, 1870 - 1957) Oil on canvas landscape with trees and mountains in the background, possible the Adirondacks, housed in a period giltwood Louis XIV style frame, signed l.r. "Gustave Wiegand" 24 1/4" x 28" canvas, 35 1/2" x 40" frame.

Gustave Wiegand, American (1870 - 1957) was born in Bremen Germany in 1870 and studied at the royal Academy in Berlin and the Royal Academy of Dresden. He also worked under Eugen Bract and William Merritt Chase in New York. He belonged to the Salmagundi Club, the Allied Artists of American and the New York Society of painters. 

Weigand's works are in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the National Arts Club in New York City and the Newark Museum. During his career, he won numerous prizes and metals while exhibiting at the National Academy of Design from 1894 - 1900 (prize 1905), the St. Louis Exposition of 1904 (medal), the Allied Artists of America in 1937 (prize), and the Worlds' Fair in St. Louis (,medal).

He also exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. annual for 1907 - 1908, the Pennsylvania Academy of fine Art Annual Exhibit 1900 - 1910, 1916, the Society of Independent Artists in 1917, and the Salons of America. Wiegand died in Old Chatham, New York in 1957. (Bio from Falk; Who Was Who in American Art)