Paul Baum

Paul Baum is counted among the most important representatives of Neo-Impressionism in Germany. First of all, Baum was trained as a flower painter at the Meißen porcelain factory, then he studied painting in Dresden and Weimar. In the 1890s a journey to Paris introduced him to the works of Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley; later, in Belgium, he personally met Camille Pissarro and Theo van Rijsselberghe. In his paintings, which are orientated to the plein-air paining of the Barbizon School, Baum now worked up stylistic and colour impulses of Impressionism, which he gave his own characteristic.