18 Facts About Walter Kuhlman

Walter Kuhlman was a 20th-century American painter and printmaker.

Walter Kuhlman later worked in a representational style related to American Figurative Expressionism.

Walter Kuhlman was born in 1918 in St Paul, Minnesota to Peter and Marie Kuhlman, Danish immigrants.

In 1936, Kuhlman enrolled at the St Paul School of Art, where he studied with Cameron Booth, a modernist who had trained in Europe with Andre Lhote and Hans Hofmann.

Walter Kuhlman completed his studies at the St Paul School in 1939, and then taught there.

Walter Kuhlman was enrolled at the University of Minnesota, from which he earned a bachelor's degree in 1941.

Walter Kuhlman married his first wife, Nora, who was in military service.

Walter Kuhlman enrolled at the California School of Fine Arts in 1947.

Walter Kuhlman was among the core group of San Francisco Abstract Expressionists.

The group has been referred to as "The Sausalito Six," because most, including Walter Kuhlman, lived in Sausalito, north of San Francisco.

Walter Kuhlman was included in a second Paris exhibition, Un art autre, curated by Michel Tapie.

Walter Kuhlman returned to his home in Sausalito, and he continued his focus on Abstract Expressionist painting through the decade of the 1950s.

Walter Kuhlman's work was included in the United States exhibition at the 1955 International Biennial of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Walter Kuhlman received a fellowship in 1957 from the Chicago-based Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

In 1960, Walter Kuhlman became a member of the faculty of the University of New Mexico.

Walter Kuhlman continued to live in Sausalito, with his second wife, Tulip.

Walter Kuhlman was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1995.

Walter Kuhlman's papers were accepted into the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art.