Born in Germany, Baumann immigrated to the United States in 1891, settling in Chicago. He attended night classes at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and eventually returned to Germany to study wood carving, where he mastered the European technique of color wood block prints. He returned to Chicago and then settled in Brown County, Indiana where he lived and worked for several years. In 1918 Baumann moved to Santa Fe where he thrived creatively and lived until his death.
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Born in Germany, Baumann immigrated to the United States in 1891, settling in Chicago. He attended night classes at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and eventually returned to Germany to study wood carving, where he mastered the European technique of color wood block prints. He returned to Chicago and then settled in Brown County, Indiana where he lived and worked for several years. In 1918 Baumann moved to Santa Fe where he thrived creatively and lived until his death.
Baumann’s interest wasn’t just limited to color woodcut. He produced oils and sculpture, created over sixty marionettes that provided the community with annual Christmas shows and wrote and illustrated Frijoles Canyon Pictographs in 1939 which was honored with the Fifty Books of the Year Award.
Today his genius and individuality are recognized and he is considered to be an American master of color woodcut. Exhibitions of his woodcuts have been viewed across the country and they are included in almost every major museum in the United States
