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Charles Umlauf was an American sculptor and teacher who was born in South Haven, Michigan.
Charles Julius Umlauf (1910- 1994) was the sixth of eight children born to French and German immigrant parents on a farm outside South Haven, Michigan.

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'We're finding things everywhere': Discover seldom-seen works of sculptor Charles Umlauf

The big wall of identically sized and mounted photographs takes the prize.

The vertically oriented black-and-white images taken by F. Wilbur Seiders reveal expressive, small sculptures made by Charles Umlauf during the 1940s.

"We're finding things everywhere in his house," says Graeme Durant, curatorial assistant at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum about items displayed in "30 x 30 x 30," the museum's 30th anniversary show, "in drawers, in cupboards."

"Some of these pieces are not known," says Katie Robinson Edwards, executive director and curator of the museum, regarding the photographed sculptures seen on the big wall. "We are trying to find out where they are. Umlauf kept boxes and boxes of records and was obsessive about documenting first sales. But after that first sale, some pieces were scattered, sometimes at auction, and are lost to us."

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CHARLES UMLAUF

Charles Julius Umlauf (1910- 1994) was the sixth of eight children born to French and German immigrant parents on a farm outside South Haven, Michigan. When he was eight, the family moved to Chicago. Umlauf’s fourth grade teacher recognized his talent and helped him earn summer scholarships at the Art Institute of Chicago. Working under master sculptors Lorado Taft and Albin Polasek, Umlauf gained competence in a wide array of media. In 1937, Umlauf married fellow Art Institute student Angeline “Angie” Allen. The couple moved to Austin in 1941 when Umlauf became a Life Drawing and Sculpture professor at the University of Texas’ Art Department. He taught at UT for 40 years, retiring as Professor Emeritus in 1981.

Umlauf’s sculptures range from haunting expressionism, to detailed neoclassical realism, to lyrical abstraction. His materials are equally diverse: exotic woods, terra cotta or cast stone in his early work, rich bronzes and alabasters and luminous marbles in his prime. With equal facility, Umlauf sculpted fam

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Charles Umlauf

Education:

1929 Art Institute of Chicago; studied and worked with Frederick Hibbard, Albin Polasek and
Edouard Chassaing

Selected One Person Exhibitions:

2011 Charles Umlauf: A Retrospective, Russell Collection, Austin, Texas
1995 “Memorial Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings by Charles Umlauf,” Meredith Long and Company, Houston, Texas
1980 Retrospective Exhibition, Archer M. Huntington Art Galleries, Austin, Texas
1979 Umlauf Home and Sculpture Garden showings, Austin, Texas
1979 T.V. Robinson Galleries, Houston, Texas
1978 Umlauf Home and Sculpture Garden showings, Austin, Texas
1977 Umlauf Home and Sculpture Garden showings, Austin, Texas
1977 Sol Del Rio Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
1975 Umlauf Home and Sculpture Garden showings, Austin, Texas
1974 Shook-Carrington Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
1971 La Galeria de Los Cruces, Corpus Christi, Texas
1970 Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont, Texas
1967 Umlauf Retrospective, University of Texas Art Museum, Austin, Texas
1966 Galleria d’Arte Santacroce, Florence, Italy
1964 Abilene M