Gustave Wiegand

The Coming Shower
c. 1925
Oil on Canvas
24 x 28

Gustave Wiegand (1870-1957)

Born in Bremen, Germany, Gustave Wiegand began his studies at the Royal Academy
in Berlin and Royal Academy of Dresden. When he moved to the United States in the
1890s, he continued his art training with Eugen Bract and William Merritt Chase. He
exhibited his landscapes and still lives at the National Academy of Design from 1894
until 1900, and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1900 until 1910.
Wiegand won awards for his paintings, including prizes from the National Academy of
Design, and the St. Louis Exposition of 1904. Like many fellow New York City artists,
Wiegand spent his summers in the countryside in Connecticut, New Hampshire, and the
Adirondack region of New York where his studio is preserved and open for public
viewing. The artists associated with the Old Lyme, Connecticut art colony bestowed
upon Wiegand the honor of contributing a painted panel for the dining room of the
Florence Griswold House, despite the fact that he had spent only one summer there.
Wiegand’s work can be found in many museums today including the Florence Griswold
Museum of Art, Old Lyme, CT, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Butler Institute of American Art,
the Newark Museum of Art, and the Washington County Museum of Art, Hagerstown,
MD.
the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and many, many more.

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