Karl Albert Buehr (1866–1952); painter born in Feuerbach, near Stuttgart, Germany. He moved to Chicago with his parents and siblings in the 1880s. In Chicago, young Karl worked at various jobs until he was employed by a lithograph company near the Art Institute of Chicago. Introduced to art at work, Karl paid regular visits to the Art Institute, where he found part-time employment, enabling him to enroll in night classes. Later, working at the Institute as a night watchman, he had a unique opportunity to study the masters and actually posted sketchings that blended in favorably with student's work. Having studied under John H. Vanderpoel, Buehr graduated with honors, while his work aroused such admiration that he was offered a teaching post there, which he maintained for many years thereafter. He graduated from the Art Inst. of Chicago and served in the IL Cav in the Spanish-American War. Mary Hess became Karl's wife—she was a student of his and an accomplished artist in her own right. In 1922, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Albert_Buehr) ....Buehr remained an expressive colorist, but broadened his brushwork somewhat in later years when impressionism waned. Back in America, he was immediately successful. He won a silver medal at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco and the Purchase Prize of the Chicago Municipal Art Commission in the following year. So famed was Buehr that he had a one-man exhibition at the Century of Progress Fair in Chicago in 1934. After a long and exceedingly productive career, he died in Chicago at the age of 86. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Albert_Buehr) Buehr painted commissioned portraits and also made etchings, but is best known for his paintings of pretty young women in shady outdoor settings; many of these were modeled on his daughter Kathleen who, like his son, George... (http://schwartzcollection.com/artists/karl-buehr) undefined

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