Helmut Summ

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BORN: 1908, Hamburg, Germany

DIED: 1992, Milwaukee

Helmut Summ was born in 1908 in Hamburg, Germany. He continued living in Germany, studying two years in Kunsthalle Hamburg, until 1922, when he moved to Kohler, Wisconsin. He attended Sheboygan Central High School, graduating in 1926. He received his artistic training from the University of Wisconsin – Madison on a scholarship (1926-1931), Black River Art Colony in Sheboygan under Arthur Colt (1929-1931), C. Peters School in Rockport, Massachusetts, and under semi-abstract painter, Umberto Romano, at Gloucester, Mas (1933) where his personal style was evoked. Summ was also a pupil of Will H. Varnum, Roland Stebbins, Helen Annen, Elsa Ulbricht, and Robert von Neumann.

From 1931 to 1948, Summ worked as an art teacher in Milwaukee Public Schools including the Boys’ Technical High School and Bay View High School. In 1948, he joined the Milwaukee State Teacher’s College and by 1956, he began serving as the chairman of the art department until his retirement in 1978.

Early in Summ’s career, he was inspired by seventeenth century Dutch painting and the twentieth century German artist, Lyonel Feininger. However, in the late 30s, he gradually began to re

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Helmut Summ
At the Docks by Helmut Summ
At the Docks
10 x 14 in.
$800.00
Ship in Fog by Helmut Summ
Ship in Fog
19.5 x 23.5 in.
$2500.00