Auguste L. "Gustl" French (1909 – 2004) was an Austrian-American painter, printmaker and photographer.

Biography

She was born and educated in

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, receiving a doctorate in modern philology from the

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."Bay Area Artist Exhibits." ''Reno Gazette-Journal'' (Reno, NV). 8 November 1963, p. 8. While in Europe, she studied with

Oskar Kokoschka Oskar Kokoschka (1 March 1886 – 22 February 1980) was an Austrian artist, poet, playwright and teacher, best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes, as well as his theories on vision that influenced the Viennese Expre ...

. She came to the United States in 1944, fleeing the Bombing of Vienna during World War II. She taught at

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in Waco, Texas, and moved to California in the mid-1950s with her family. There she studied in Oakland at the

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(now California College of the Arts), and at the

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in the M.F.A. Program.

References

1909 births 2004 deaths Painters from Vienna Austrian emigrants to the United States Austrian women photographers 20th-century American women photographers 20th-century American photographers 20th-century Austrian painters 20th-century Austrian women artists 20th-century American women painters 20th-century American painters 21st-century American women painters 21st-century American painters 20th-century Austrian photographers 21st-century Austrian photographers Baylor University faculty California College of the Arts faculty Claremont Graduate University faculty University of Vienna alumni {{Austria-artist-stub