Carl Wuermer

American (1900-1981)

Born in Munich, Germany in 1900, painter Carl Wuermer emigrated to Chicago in 1915. Wuermer studied at the Art Institute of Chicago with Wellington Reynolds and at the Art Students League in New York. He was a member of the Allied Artists of America, Society of Independent Artists, Salons of America, Woodstock Art Association and Old Lyme Artist Colony. Wuermer exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, Corcoran Gallery, Carnegie Institute, International, Allied Artists of America, Salons of America, Society of Independent Artists and, in 1928, won the J. Francis Murphy Prize from the National Academy of Design. In 1929 he was accepted for representation by Grand Central Art Galleries in New York. 

His work is in numerous public collections including the High Museum of Art in Atlanta Georgia,  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Wichita Art Museum, Mead Art Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts, and Woodstock Artists Association and Museum.